Quotes About Division

One problem with democracy as it plays in our country is that the majority rules so hard; we seem bent on dividing all things into a contest of Win and Lose, and declaring that the Losers are losers. Nearly half of us are routinely asked to disappear while the slim majority works its will. But the playing field is the planet earth, and I for one have no place else to go.

It was a symbiotic division of labor that would have made a classical economist flush with pride.

Our Bibles today have chapter and verse divisions. These are extremely helpful, of course, since without them it is very hard indeed to tell someone where to find a passage. But the authors did not write in chapters and verses. One problem with our having them is that they make us think that the next chapter (or even verse) is changing the subject.

The mind divides the world into a million pieces. The heart makes it whole.

One of history's most dangerous games begins with dividing the world into the good guys and the bad guys and ends with using any means necessary to take the villains out.

We commonly see things 'out there' and go after them. Our mind is thus characterised by division and separation.

T]he most basic division is 'me' and 'everything else,' self and other.

America's partisan divide went global.

The opposite of fear is hope, defined as the expectation of good fortune not only for ourselves but for the group to which we belong. Fear is about limits; hope is about growth. Fear pushes away; hope pulls others closer. Fear divides; hope unifies.

If the pirate articles were clear about anything, it was that the act of dividing up the booty was as close to a sacrament as anything else in the code.

The enmeshing of polysemy with grammar is also visible in one of the ways that Americans and Britons are divided by their common language. When a product gives its name to an employer, the name is singular in the United States (The Globe is expanding its comics section) but plural in the United Kingdom (The Guardian are giving you the chance to win books).

As the economist Ludwig von Mises put it centuries later, "If the tailor goes to war against the baker, he must henceforth bake his own bread.") Many Enlightenment thinkers, including Montesquieu, Kant, Voltaire, Diderot, and the Abbé de Saint-Pierre, endorsed the ideal

If you want to see tribalism at its fiercest, check out a "Nikon vs. Canon" Internet discussion group.)

As they say, everybody wins. Of course, an exchange at a single moment in time only pays when there is a division of labor.

Even evolutionary explanations of the traditional division of labor by sex do not imply that it is unchangeable, "natural" in the sense of good, or something that should be forced on individual women or men who don't want it.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

where civil blood makes civil hands unclean

You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick.

I love Germany so much that I preferred when there were two.

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truths.

People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests.

If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be these separations?

Love is a great glue, but there is no cement like mutual hate.