Quotes About Disunity

#1. Even to an outsider like myself, not only in the theatre was such disunity evident, but in much else in government Spain. Alvarez del Vayo, Socialist Minister of Foreign Affairs, once asked, Why is it Spain's people are so great, but her leaders so small?

Langston Hughes

#2. To know God and not oneself to be God, to know blessedness and not oneself to enjoy it, is a state of disunity or unhappiness.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#3. Disagreements don't cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does.

Loren Cunningham

#4. Today, the Muslim world is injured and corrupt people who are the enemies of all Muslims are trying to cause disunity in the Islamic world by intensifying ethnic difference and separating people under names such as 'Shia and Sunni', 'Arabs and non Arabs'.

Ali Khamenei

#5. The only separation the Bible knows is between believers on the one hand and unbelievers on the other. Any other kind of separation, division, disunity is of the devil. It is evil and from sin.

Desmond Tutu

#6. For just as we communicate to one another the good news of God's love when we forgive one another, so too we communicate to the world that God has sent his Son when we are one as God is one (John 17:21). Disunity, on the other hand, communicates to the world that God has not sent his Son.

Brad Harper

#7. Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.

Ann Leckie

#8. Everywhere religion has gone it has created disunity.

Neale Donald Walsch

#9. Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.

Herbert Hoover

#10. As far as we are concerned, there is no dislike, no personal tension, no disunity or strife that cannot be overcome by intercessory prayer. Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#11. The dynamic of globalisation in financial and economic terms, but also in geopolitical terms, confronts Europeans with a stark choice: live together, share a common destiny and count in the world; or face the prospect of disunity and decline.

Jose Manuel Barroso

#12. Disagreement based on LEGITIMATE IJTIHAD which does not create DISCORD or DISUNITY is a BLESSING for the UMMAH and an enrichment of ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE. Objective disagreement in itself poses no threat if it is coupled with TOLERANCE and is free of FANATICISM, ACCUSATIONS, and NARROW-MINDEDNESS.

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

#13. If our mind is in conflict, not balanced with our body and with the needs of the soul, then there is a fundamental disunity in our life. Only if we have unity within ourselves, we can create unity in the world around us. You can't give something you don't have, even if you have all good intentions

Radhanath Swami

#14. We crave, we deeply yearn for, release from the limitations of a dogma that declares separation, disunity, and judgment to be the essential condition of life.

Neale Donald Walsch

#15. despite the visible disunity of the church throughout the world, we can rightly attribute unity to the church insofar as it is the same Holy Spirit who enables the church in all of its manifestations to bear witness to Jesus Christ and to worship the Holy Trinity in truth and love.

Jason E. Vickers

#16. Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success.

Stanley Hauerwas

#17. Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred, oppression and disunity, but not by using methods of violence. Building peace requires creative and courageous action

Pope John Paul II

#18. If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.

John F. Kennedy

#19. We do not work for unity; we work to end and erase disunity. Unity is of God; disunity is of man. In matters of doctrine and practice of conscience, our guide should be this traditional saying: In essentials, unity. In nonessentials, liberty. But in all things, love.

Mike Timmis

#20. If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.

Desi Arnaz

#21. Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.

George Berkeley

#22. The sport needs a personality, not a fighter. We've got plenty of great fighters in the sport, but no personalities. No one is standing for anything. The last personality we had was Mike Tyson. He stood for something. It wasn't much, but he stood for something.

George Foreman

#23. His genius, during his earlier manhood, was of that exclusively agricultural character which applies itself to the cultivation of wild oats.

Charles Dickens

#24. I've learned that regardless of color or age, we all need about the same amount of love.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#25. If we are a body, then we are on that is afflicted with an autoimmune disease.

Christena Cleveland

#26. Good skin makes me feel pretty, and it makes me feel healthy, and it makes me feel happy.

Cara Santa Maria

#27. When two persons are too close, they fall apart.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#28. Contradiction is the perfect evidence, he (Lincoln) thought, of human fallibility.

Elton Trueblood

#29. Rebels depend on willful gullibility.

Dan Jones

#30. this ain't nothin

Craig Morgan

#31. If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.

Eddie Izzard

#32. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

Rita Mae Brown