Unity Not Uniformity Quotes

#1. So, when there is a strife of tongues, at some meeting, the chairman, to obtain unity, suggests that every one shall speak in French. Perhaps it is bad French; French may not contain the words that express the speaker's thoughts; nevertheless speaking French imposes some order, some uniformity.

Virginia Woolf

#2. Uniformity is not the key to successful teamwork. The glue that holds a team together is unity of purpose.

John C. Maxwell

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

Tariq Ramadan

#4. Let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Mary Parker Follett

#6. Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.

William E. Gladstone

#7. If you have unity without variety, you have uniformity and that's boring. If you have variety without unity, you have anarchy.

Skip Heitzig

#8. You know how I feel about you, Bluefur. I'd do my best to make you happy, I promise. And I'll love your kits as though they were my own.

Erin Hunter

#9. It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.

Stephen Chbosky

#10. We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.

Walter Crane

#11. We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity.

Roger Williams

#12. Unity without uniformity, community without conformity.

Mac MacKenzie

#13. They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see.

Jack Kerouac

#14. The great curse of theology and ecclesiasticisim has always been their tendency to sacrifice large interests to small: Charity to Creed, Unity to Uniformity, Fact to Tradition, Ethics to Dogma.

Andrew Dickson White

#15. Unity has never meant uniformity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#16. I faced the "dead lion" courageously but will definitely run if I meet a roaring one ...

Bahterawan

#17. A very large percentage of illnesses are the expressions of inadequate responses to the environment.

Rene Dubos

#18. To achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.

Jan Struther