The Body

Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created. Ida Pauline Rolf  (American biochemist)

The Person

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process. Rowan Williams 

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. Joseph Campbell
(American author)

The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement. Paramahansa Yogananda (Indian leader)

Family

We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family. Hans Kung (Swiss priest)

I think family is key, and if you have love for family, then you have love for others – and you have unity as a people. Marlon Wayans (American Actor) 

One of the primary purposes of civilization – and certainly its primary strength – is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order. Robert Kennedy (American politician)

Society

Society is unity in diversity George Herbert Mead (American philosopher) 

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two. Buddha (Indian ascetic and sage)

The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers. Baha’u’llah (Founder of the Bahai faith – born Iran and died in Israel 1817-1892)

Country
History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity. Haile Selassie (Ethiopian emperor)

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity. Adrian Cronauer (American air force sergeant and radio personality)

Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn’t let them do it. Ben Carson (American neurosurgeon)

Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese. Charles de Gaulle (French president)

No one can undermine national unity. Ivica Dacic (Serbian politician)

One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King. Zach Wamp (American politician)

The most successful of the nations of the world are those who do not fall into the lure of secession but who, through thick and thin, forge unity in diversity. Yemi Osinbajo (Nigerian politician)

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. Nelson Mandela (South African Statesman)

World

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart. Franklin D. Roosevelt (American president)

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual. Arthur Henderson (British politician)

World Peace Day is envisioned to become a moment of global unity – it is up to each and every one of us to make this a reality. Jeremy Gilley (English actor)

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin(French philosopher 1881-1955)

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity. Ernst Toller (German playwright)

We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family. Hans Kung (Swiss priest)

You can add up the parts
You won’t have the sum Leonard Cohen from Anthem

We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened… what harm is there in this?… these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the ‘Most Great Peace’ shall come. Baha’u’llah (Founder of the Bahai faith born Iran dies in Israel  1817-1892)

Nature

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day’s unity. Charles Ives
(American composer)

Arts Literature Culture

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. W. Somerset Maugham (British playwright)

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again. Ben Shneiderman (American scientist) 

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it. Camille Pissarro (French artist)

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. Felix Mendelssohn (German composer) 

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made. Norman McLaren (Scottish artist)

Music brings unity. Trombone Shorty (American jazz musician)

In my opinion, the motion picture is the greatest medium of expression ever invented. It embraces all the other arts. The films that have the greatest unity, the greatest overall strength, and give the most satisfaction to the viewer, have been those in which a guiding hand was imposed in every section of the film’s many divisions. King Vidor( American director)

Philosophy

Where there is unity there is always victory. Publilius Syrus (Latin writer brought as a slave from Syria to Italy born 85BC)

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity. William Butler Yeats (Irish poet)

Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. Mattie Stepanek (American poet died at age 13 of dysautonomic mitochondrial myopathy)

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. Herman Hesse (German poet and novelist)

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. Felix Mendelssohn (German composer) 

Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object. Edmund Husserl (German philosopher)

It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details. Henri Poincare
(mathematician)

I’m a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality – one world of our experience that we’re seeking to describe. John Polkinghorne (British physicist)

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things. Dogen (Buddhist priest 1200-1253)

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration. Carol P. Christ (American feminist historina, theologian author and foremothewr of the Goddess movement)

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity. Gottfried Leibniz (German polymath and philosopher 1646 -1716) 

If we are not honest, we are not going to be able to forge unity. Cyril Ramaphosa (South African politician)

You don’t get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced Jay Weatherill (Premier of South Australia)

Religion

I believe that if Mohammed, Buddha, Jesus, and Moses all got together they would be best of friends because the spiritual basis of all religions is something that builds unity.
Yehuda Berg (Israeli – founder Kabbalah Center)

There is more power in unity than division. Emanuel Cleaver (Methodist pastor and American politician)

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. Ravi Zacharias (American Canadian Christian Apologist)

There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (Indian Maharishi and Yogi)

God does not change; he is Love, ever and always. In himself, he is communion, unity in Trinity, and all his words and works are directed to communion. Pope Benedict XVI (German clergyman)

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. Saint Augustine
(saint)

One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal. Henri Nouwen
(Dutch clergyman)

Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God. Sai Baba (Indian saint died 1918)

At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (French philosopher 1881-1955)

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. Thomas Aquinas (Italian theologian 1225-1274)

And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Renaissance nobleman and philosopher 1463-1494)

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