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Quotes About Division

People who were not already divided into factions would make factions given the chance, and they would always want the most important people to belong to their faction, whether the person in question agreed with that or not.
~ Mercedes Lackey
This is from Payroll Division: I wasn't even teaching in June, and I certainly don't have $2.75. Apparently they don't know I'm file # 443-817 and have got me confused with another–possibly # 443-818?
~ Bel Kaufman
As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer.
~ bell hooks
If we are to put an end to division, people from all political persuasions will have to stop fighting one another and seek true unity, not just a consensus that benefits one party.
~ Ben Carson
Over the course of time many Americans have forgotten that "we the people" are actually at the top of the food chain as far as authority is concerned in this nation. The Republicans don't run our nation. The Democrats don't run our nation. We do. However, by dividing and engaging in political squabbles, we have allowed the government to grow so large and powerful that it has now become the boss, progressively taking charge of all of our lives.
~ Ben Carson
Class warfare is an artificial division created for political advantage, and it should be rejected outright
~ Ben Carson
completely different lenses. The racial divide is about the reality each side sees. Each side believes its view is the true reality, and we can't understand why the other side doesn't see the same thing and understand our reality.
~ Benjamin Watson
Here's what's really bad about those shows: They reduce every issue or event to a debate. And this approach spills out of the TV studios and into our lives. We become all about "taking a side" and arguing it fiercely. We then look for facts to fit our assumptions. And we learn to distrust everything that doesn't fit our version of reality. And all of this simply divides us.
~ Benjamin Watson
Division. The smaller French column, meant to reinforce the success of the two that had climbed through Sula, had swung away
~ Bernard Cornwell
In a sick country every step to health is an insult to those who live on its sickness.
~ Bernard Malamud
Le monde se divise en deux catégories de gens : ceux qui lisent des livres et ceux qui écoutent ceux qui ont lu des livres.
~ Bernard Werber
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
~ Bertrand Russell
The special skill of the politician consists in knowing what passions can be most easily aroused, and how to prevent them, when aroused, from being harmful to himself and his associates...Moreover, since politicians are divided into rival groups, they aim at similarly dividing the nation, unless they have the good fortune to unite it in war against some other nation.
~ Bertrand Russell
In time of war there is a unification of interests, especially if the war is fierce; but in time of peace the clash may be very great between the interests of one class and those of another.
~ Bertrand Russell
The world at present is full of angry self-centred groups, each incapable of viewing human life as a whole, each willing to destroy civilization rather than yield an inch
~ Bertrand Russell
I guess blustery liberal Republicans flock together.
~ Ken Cuccinelli
Anger in the black community towards Republicans is established and immutable.
~ Bob Beckel
There are certainly more Republicans who like President Trump than like 'Republicans in Congress,' and certainly many Republicans who already feel like their own Congress is a brake pedal of its own.
~ Kristen Soltis Anderson
We don't know each other. Democrats don't know Republicans, Republicans don't know Democrats.
~ James Carville
Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!
~ Lewis Black
We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done.
~ Emanuel Cleaver
I've always had a deep distaste, since 1984, for both Republicans and Democrats.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
Nothing hurts so much the interest and reputation of America as to hear of their intestine quarrels.
~ Marquis de Lafayette
Motherhood has become a battleground on which prejudice and class resentment can be waged without ever admitting that's what we're doing.
~ Kim Brooks