Quotes about Unity
Any man's death diminishes me, for I am involved with mankind.
— John Donne
No man is an island entirely of itself. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.
— John Donne
You are earth; he whom you tread upon is no less, and he that treads upon you is no more.
— John Donne
But think that we Are but turn'd aside to sleep; They who one another keep Alive, ne'er parted be.
— John Donne
Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.
— John Donne
Thy breath in the congregation, thy word in the church, breathes communion and consolation here, and consummation hereafter;
— John Donne
Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown; Let us possess one world; each hath one, and is one. My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres Without sharp north, without declining west?
— John Donne
We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.
— John Donne
No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thine own Or of thine friend's were. Each man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind. Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.
— John Donne
Give me tender and supple and conformable affections, that as I joy with them that joy, and mourn with them that mourn, so I may fear with them that fear.
— John Donne
Good ball players make good citizens.
— Grover Cleveland
Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.
— Mahatma Gandhi