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Quotes About Division

The Tory party must learn from its own history that when we fight each other, you can guarantee to lose.
~ Anna Soubry
Politics — I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.
~ Sean O'Casey
It was at this time that, invisibly and unnoticed, the Germans divided into those who later became Nazis and those who would remain non-Nazis.
~ Sebastian Haffner
The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.
~ Sebastian Junger
You can divide the world into the two kinds of people: those who ask, and those who answer. Those who pose questions, and those who frown in irritation in response.
~ Sergei Dovlatov
Emotion is emotion, and politics is politics, and one has nothing to do with the other.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
We must fight for our country and forget our differences. There can be but two parties: the party of patriots and the party of traitors ...
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
Pero, ¿qué es eso de país? ¿En serio seguimos jugando a ese juego? ¿Todavía no hemos pasado esa pantalla, como especie? ¿Qué es un país? Dime, Séptimo. ¿Qué es una patria? Es una ficción, hermano, una ficción peligrosa.
~ Shalom Auslander
In our cultural value system, we have divided up human traits between the sexes and consequently have denied each sex a part of its humanity.
~ Shane Claiborne
Get this jiggaboo away from me!
~ Shawn Wayans
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls: The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles' Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch; and I don't like anybody very much!
~ Sheldon Harnick
Our own country seemed more polarized than it's ever been and since the two terrorist attacks of 9/11, religion was in greater disrepute than at any other time in my lifetime.
~ Pico Iyer
Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time.
~ Quentin Crisp
Nirvana is something that cannot be known here. I know it seems incongruous, but it is only incongruous from the perspective of the dialectical consciousness of division, of time and space
~ Frederick Lenz
There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.
~ G. Edward Griffin
You ever notice that? Any time you see two groups of people who really hate each other, chances are good they're wearing different kind of hats. Keep an eye on that, it might be important.
~ George Carlin
These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is the rising tide of our time.
~ Irvine Welsh
President Obama and Hillary Clinton, every time you disagree with them it doesn't matter which subject it is, you're a bigot or you're a racist.
~ Jan Brewer
Republicans and Democrats spend so much time fighting and then they're all aghast, you know, and so it's just not the way we ought to be. The coarseness is not acceptable.
~ John Kasich
Every time somebody opens their mouth they have an opportunity to do one of two things - connect or divide.
~ Joss Whedon
I never allow myself to be influenced in the smallest degree either by atmospheric disturbances or by the arbitrary divisions of what is known as Time.
~ Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?
~ Rita Moreno
There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.
~ Salman Rushdie
Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.
~ Jose Marti