Quotes About Division

The prohibition law, written for weaklings and derelicts, has divided the nation, like Gaul, into three parts - wets, drys, and hypocrites.

The separation of employments, the division of labor, which results from the faculty of exchanging, causes each man, instead of struggling on his own account to overcome all the obstacles that surround him, to combat only one of them; he overcomes that one not for himself but for his fellow men, who in turn render him the same service.

But scissors are really intended for one job alone - snipping things in two. Dividing by force. Everything on one side or the other, and nothing in between.

What would have happened if Caverna had been torn by a civil war, the two opposed leaders housed in a single body?

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.

The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West . . . But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace.

Has a world composed of "us" and "not us" been invaded at last?

All forms of disunion are of the devil.

The democrats blow. The Republicans suck. Or Visa Versa.

A virus doesn't understand politics.

Hate means strife, and the two together weave the robe that terror wears.

There was no way of uniting the country over Brexit. Britain is deeply divided over it. Now that Brexit will happen, we must make the best of it and the country must come together.

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

For hundreds of years, their recorded writings—whether nuns or poets, inspired teachers or artists—have described a division, or painful restlessness, within themselves prior to a moment of illumination when a great light or descent of grace fell upon them.

Religion and religious hatred are one of the best ways for thickening darkness. - Book of Consolation, 5.9

it is the smaller, the petty, things in life that divide people. It is the great tasks that bring men together.

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

read a quote recently from Werner Herzog. You know who he is?" "The German film director." "Right. He said that America was waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that one-third of our people will kill one-third of our people while one-third of our people watches.

If there were train tracks nearby, this neighborhood was on the wrong side of them.

Until comparatively recently in its history, Maycomb County was so cut off from the rest of the nation that some of its citizens, unaware of the South's political predilections over the past ninety years, still voted Republican.

This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.

She wished she had paid more attention to them, but only one glance down a column of print was enough to tell her a familiar story: same people who were the Invisible Empire, who hated Catholics; ignorant, fear-ridden, red-faced, boorish, law-abiding, one hundred per cent red-blooded Anglo-Saxons, her fellow Americans—trash.

you saw something come between them and reason. You saw the same thing that night in front of the jail. When that crew went away, they didn't go as reasonable men, they went because we were there. There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins.

From now on it'll be everybody less one.