<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (April 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> "United we stand, divided we fall" is a phrase used in many different kinds of mottos, most often to inspire unity and collaboration . Its core concept lies in the collectivist notion that if individual members of a certain group with binding ideals--such as a union, coalition, confederation or alliance--work on their own instead of as a team, they are each doomed to fail and will all be defeated . The phrase is also often referred to with only the words "United we stand". </P> <P> The phrase has been attributed to the ancient Greek storyteller Aesop, both directly in his fable "The Four Oxen and the Lion" and indirectly in "The Bundle of Sticks". </P> <P> A similar phrase also appears in the biblical New Testament--translated into English from the historic Greek in Mark 3: 25 as "And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand". Similar verses of the New Testament include Matthew 12: 25 ("And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand") and Luke 11: 17 ("But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth ."). </P>

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