Quotes About Division

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Why do people wage war? Why do hundreds of thousands, even millions of people group together and try to annihilate each other? Do people start wars out of anger? Or fear? Or are anger and fear just two aspects of the same spirit?

26. Caution about Instigators of Dissension: Division and disunion in society is created by elements that follow their doubts and pursue misdirected passions.  Such people solely rely on their personal opinions and vested interests rather than on reliable sources and consider their own judgment superior to that of their leader.[29]

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home - I think in those days we called them arguments - about who was right and who was wrong.

In my view - which could be wrong, but it is my field - there is no better formula for social instability than to divide a society between two ascribed characteristics that are seen as opposite.

We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation.

A mark of stupidity is a belief that one party is totally virtuous and correct on the issues while the other is evil and always wrong.

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

Disbelief in the consequences of wrongdoing has coarsened our society and alienated us one from another.

WWE seems to me to have gone back to the state they were at when their women's division was on top. They're making their divas really learn how to work.

When WWE announced that the women's division will be getting Tag Team Championships, I don't think there was a girl in the locker room who wasn't totally pumped.

I wish WWE had their own creative team for the girls. They could have an even stronger women's division.

Ya know what's fun? When Democrats start calling each other sexist.

I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.

Most guys who don't like me are either Democrats or Yankee fans.

Our citizens never hesitate to take sides against one another, whether it's Democrats versus Republicans, Coke drinkers opposed to Pepsi enthusiasts or Yankee loyalists against Red Sox aficionados.

Nothing is worse than a Yankee telling a Southerner that his monuments don't matter.

My husband and I have, in some ways, a non-traditional relationship - especially when it comes to domestic duties. He does most of the cooking, dishes, and laundry, while I do most of the yard work. I love to mow the lawn! And I take great satisfaction in planting and pruning.

In the division, yeah, I believe I have the best ground game.

We probably haven't seen the variety and diversity of threats to Americans' safety and well-being and our national security in a long, long time. Some have said it almost makes you yearn for the Cold War days when you knew who the bad guys were and who the good guys were, and there was a wall dividing us.

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed.

I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either.