Quotes About Unity In Diversity

#1. The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.

Murray Bookchin

#2. Unity in diversity is India's strength. There is simplicity in every Indian. There is unity in every corner of India. This is our strength.

Narendra Modi

#3. If God had so wished, he could have made all Indians speak one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.

Rabindranath Tagore

#4. Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#5. Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.

Mamata Banerjee

#6. Society is unity in diversity.

George Herbert Mead

#7. Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainment is made possible through passionate concern for choice, in an atmosphere of social trust.

Michael Novak

#9. The vision of Hinduism is unity in diversity. First, Hinduism lovingly embraces all alien elements; second, it tries to assimilate them; third, it tries to expand itself as a whole, with a view to serving humanity and nature.

Sri Chinmoy

#10. Which one is more true -- unity in diversity of culture or diversity in unity of religion!

Ajay

#11. We are men and women from many lands, representing a rich variety of cultures. And we have been brought together to work in a great common cause: the survival and progress of mankind. The concept of unity in diversity ... underlies our various pursuits at the United Nations.

Kurt Waldheim

#12. We can have unity in diversity and diversity in unity. We don't have to be like one another to enjoy sisterhood.

Barbara W. Winder

#13. It is only as a unity in diversity that the Christian community will become an inviting community in a society which is otherwise pretty uniform. Creation is motley and diverse, and the new creation even more so.

Jurgen Moltmann

#14. In another sense he is "being itself," in that he is the inexhaustible source of all reality, the absolute upon which the contingent is always utterly dependent, the unity and simplicity that underlies and sustains the diversity of finite and composite things.

David Bentley Hart

#15. From the tiniest grain of sand to the brain of an Einstein, all existence, animate and inanimate, is the product of the same ninety-two elements that are themselves the harvest of the energy of the creation. At every turn an underlying commonality, a unity, emerges from within the diversity.

Gerald Schroeder

#16. It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?

Terry Eagleton

#17. The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah - it is the same unity that animates all life from the lowest animal to the noblest man.

Swami Vivekananda

#18. Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions ... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.

Muhammad Iqbal

#19. Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple.

Thomas Huxley

#20. No man can lead mean, we have to have unity.

Bob Marley

#21. Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.

Desmond Tutu

#22. Unity=diversity in harmony!

Dani Johnson

#23. Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#24. We are going forward with the idea of a multicultural , a multinational state, trying to live in unity, at the same time respecting our diversity ... But we need to all come together so we can live united.

Evo Morales

#25. The goal of the World Federalists is peace through unity of government. We must support their vision of oneness in diversity, for it is the salvation of mankind.

Jean Stapleton

#26. Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.

Ramakrishna

#27. No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.

A.J. Darkholme

#28. Eventually, the British came to overrule India because there was too much diversity in our unity. They were great expotents and impotents. They started by expoting salt from India and then impoting cloth.' One of the more difficult questions related to Chanakya,

Ashwin Sanghi

#29. The bond of love, we unite the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. In the Episcopal Church I find a healthy sense of unity and diversity. In this tradition we recognize that that which holds the church together is more important than that which divides the church.

Robert E. Webber

#31. The vital power of an imaginative work demands a diversity within its unity; and the stronger the diversity the more massive the unity.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#32. At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#33. Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.

Meher Baba

#34. In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

Mahatma Gandhi

#35. We can make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity.

Richard Lamm

#36. Theologically, the creation of chocolate demonstrates both the unity and the diversity of humanity. Wherever you taste it, in every country of the world, it is immediately recognizable. Other things, in every cuisine, are just food, but chocolate is chocolate.

David Augsburger

#37. The law is the anchor of our feelings. If the law holds our feelings well, it directs our feelings well. If however, the laws fails to hold our feelings well, our feelings become free enough for us to do what we feel freely

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#38. Our unity will always be a greater force with mixed ideals than if we demand that others change for us, to what we believe.

A.J. Darkholme

#39. In the midst of the apparent diversity of human affairs, a certain number of primary facts may be discovered, from which all others are derived.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#40. Acknowledge diversity and you will achieve unity. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Zhu Xiao-Mei

#41. Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#42. I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.

Isadora Duncan

#43. Love.. is seeing the unity under the imaginary diversity.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#44. What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant by philosophy. It must satisfy the reason, and it must show the unity underlying the endless diversity of the facts that science observes.

Annie Besant

#45. I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.

Mahatma Gandhi

#46. In crucial things, unity. In important things, diversity. In ALL things, generosity.

George H. W. Bush

#47. Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God's infinity, unity and oneness appear to be broken into an effulfgence of manifold rays.

Edith Stein

#48. Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.

Aleister Crowley

#49. For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

Desmond Tutu

#50. For among nations - as within nations - the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that which rejects coercion.

Richard M. Nixon

#51. You can't have unity without diversity.

Richard Twiss

#52. Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

W. H. Auden

#53. Unlike 'other' religious belief systems in competition with Christianity, we have not been called to become 'absorbed' into the deity but rather brought into communion with God through union with Christ thereby maintaining our unique individuality and personal identity

R. Alan Woods

#54. The universality of Islam is not uniformity, it is unity with diversity.

Tariq Ramadan

#55. Unity despite diversity is exactly what defines Christianity as distinct from and antithetical to all other religious belief systems".

~R. Alan Woods [2006]

R. Alan Woods

#56. Christianity through the operation of the Holy Spirit affirms unity as well as variety (diversity) in the Body of Christ.

Sunday Adelaja

#57. 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

#58. In essentials, unity; in inessentials, diversity; in all things, charity.

Peter Kreeft

#59. We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

Lamar Alexander

#60. We can never work alone to bring great multiplication. It has to happen through unity & diversity.

Loren Cunningham

#61. Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

Mary Parker Follett

#62. I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a many-stranded texture, with color and depth.

Norman Cousins

#63. He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man ... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#64. After all, we are created in the image of a God who is a diversity of persons who exist in ineffable unity. This

Desmond Tutu