Kim Dae Jung Quotes

I've been talking about unifying the division for a long time.

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.

Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.

I will make them one nation in the land.

To create greater convergence, we need more intergration.

The technicalities matter a lot, but the unifying vision matters more.

Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

I assure Romanians that once I return... I will try and generate a sentiment of reconciliation in society. Divisions in society must be stopped, they must be annihilated, because Romania needs all its energy to... integrate into the civilized world.

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.

Unification or Death

The mission defines the coalition.

There is something to this vision thing.

E Pluribus Unum [One out of many]

Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as such actions are our duty.

In business, I believe that if you focus only on the journey, you'll miss the whole point of the enterprise. There has to be a goal, an end game of some kind; otherwise, you're just spinning your wheels. Yes, the journey is important, but the destination is important, too.

I try not to think of my life in terms of separation.

Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.

Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.

Out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion amalgamation.

The things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The Spirit by unity has become spiritual; The Valley by unity has become full; All things by unity have come into existence.