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Quotes About Division

Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.
~ Jane Smiley
Regrettably, many religious traditions exacerbate our innate proclivity to divide the world into two clearly demarcated camps, and in doing so, this fans the flames of intolerance and hate.
~ Gad Saad
Nobody knows the tragedy of a small island divided against itself better than a Cypriot.
~ Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
This heavyweight division, it takes just one punch for anyone. It doesn't matter how hard you train or what.
~ Derrick Lewis
I'm not a grassroots organizer; that is clear. I believe in a division of labor. I'm not trained to organize the grassroots, and grassroots has to come from the grassroots.
~ Mohamed ElBaradei
This Right vs Left fault line has been drawn through all of our nations. In India too, your political choice has come to define all of you. And if you fail the ideological purity test of one or the other side, you are immediately branded a traitor.
~ Barkha Dutt
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
~ Margaret Thatcher
I relax by catching up with my friends and family. When I am at home in Ibiza, I find the contrast of living on a divided island relaxing - with beauty and tranquillity in the north and a sense of fun, shallowness and celebration in the south.
~ James Blunt
We live in a representative democracy, characterized by free and fair elections and peaceful transfers of power. After most elections, roughly half of Americans are thrilled with the results; the other half are profoundly disappointed.
~ Todd Young
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.
~ Christian Lous Lange
Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.
~ Christian Lous Lange
Her mother, an employee with a state-owned company, is a Serb. Her father, an engineer, is a Muslim, which means that S. is neither one nor the other. That is why S. thinks she is exempt from alignment. This is what she believed until the armed men and soldiers arrived in her mountain village that same day. Now, however, she sees that for her war began the moment others started dividing and labelling her, when nobody asked her anything any more.
~ Slavenka Drakuli?
Category of 'enemy' could spread to the whole nation
~ Slavenka Drakuli?
When the Holy Ghost has full control, Christ is never divided, His body is not divided, there is no division. Schism and division are the products of the carnal mind.
~ Smith Wigglesworth
Malheureusement, en un sens, les religions divisent les hommes. On est persuadé que sa religion contient la vérité du monde et que les autres sont dans l'erreur. C'est absolument faux
~ Soeur Emmanuelle
The question of the moral status of wealth, and the relation of Christian faith to issues of economic justice and responsibility, seems to me one of the areas in which Christians are most confused, divided, and uneasy.
~ Sondra Ely Wheeler
This earth is hard symmetry This earth of feverish war This earth inflamed with hate
~ Sonia Sanchez
America has turned into an angry nation with two warring factions that ceaselessly demand that we join in their fight,
~ Spencer Baum
Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.
~ Spider Robinson
There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded.
~ SPIRO AGNEW
For not even lions or dragons have ever waged with their kind such wars as men have waged with one another.
~ St. Augustine
I, for one, shall speak about those obstinate Greeks, who are with us and against us, united in faith and divided in peace, though in truth their faith may stray from the straight path.
~ St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Your humans slaughter each other because of the color of your skin, or your faith or your plitics -- or for no reason at all -- too many of you hate as easily as you draw breath. - Magneto
~ Stan Lee