Common Bond Quotes

We are one people… our enemies made us one whether we will or not, as has repeatedly happened in history. Affection binds us together, and thus united, we suddenly discover our strength.

We are all Americans, sir.

The motherland is the common mother, the unity within which isolated the individuals penetrate and become enmeshed. It is the holy name that expresses the voluntary fusion of all interests into one interest, of all lives into one lasting and perpetual life.

Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.

When you're in part of the same draft class, you always have a certain connection that not many other people can have with each other.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

In most vital organizations, there is a common bond of interdependence, mutual interest, interlocking contributions, and simple joy.

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.

We have a stake in one another ... what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart

Love is the only unifier in the world. We've all felt exactly the same way. It'll make you crazy, and it'll make you ecstatic, and that's true for everyone.

I am proud of the fact that, despite all the disparities that do come up often in our country, we are still Indians, and I am proud of that.

In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood.

Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.

I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.

Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.

Rapport is the ability to enter someone else's world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

We hunger for connection to a larger community.

What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort. Christians come together because they have all been loved by Jesus himself. They are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus' sake.