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“For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evill intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies; yet our present numbers are sufficient to repel the force of all the world.” Thomas Paine, Common Sense
“For the unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.” John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address
“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
“Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.” Barack Obama, Inaugural Address
“If I preached unity, I must act like a unifier, even at the risk of perhaps alienating some of my own colleagues.” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
“All that destroys social unity is worthless; all institutions that set man in contradiction to himself are worthless.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
“we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new destiny, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says...” William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
“There be other simple ideas which convey themselves into the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection, viz. PLEASURE or DELIGHT, and its opposite, PAIN, or UNEASINESS; POWER; EXISTENCE; UNITY mix with almost all our other Ideas.” John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“Again, to make peace either in oneself or among others, shows a man to be a follower of God, Who is the God of unity and peace.” Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
“I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer...” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Physical science is one and indivisible.” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“We need to strengthen the conviction that we are one single human family.” Pope Francis, Laudato si'
“Oh! love! . . . That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.” Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“If his forces are united, separate them.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“We waste our energy fighting one another, instead of presenting a common front to the world.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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