united quotes

As a boy I genuinely believed in the man who never ate bacon because its red and white stripesreminded himof Sheffield Unitedindeed in my blue and white Wednesday heart I applauded and supported his loyalty.

- Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley
  Goodbye toYorkshire.

Imagine Rousseau,Voltaire, Holbach, Lessing, Heine, and Hegel united in one personI say united, not lumped togetherand you have Dr Marx.

- Moses Hess
Quoted in  A J P  Taylor's introduction to the Penguin edition of The Communist Manifesto (1967).

This country needs to be united. And sadly, sadly, he wasn't the man who could do it.

- Claudia AltaTaylor known as Lady Bird Johnson
  On LyndonB  Johnson's decision not to seek a second term during the Vietnam War. In the Washington Post, 23 Mar.

   What is called science today consists of a haphazard heap of information, united by nothing, often utterly unnecessary, and not only failing to present one unquestionable truth, but as often as not containing the grossest errors today put forward as truths, and tomorrow overthrown.

- Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
  What is Art? (translated byV Tchertkoff).