Quotes About Division

Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

All we have is our talent. That's what's great about the division, you can see things that 125-pound guys can do that some other guys can't. All we have is our skill.

I think to get first in your division you've got to have a lot of depth, a lot of character, a lot of skill, a lot of competitiveness.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.

I think people have made their minds up about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. They love them and hate them - love them or hate them.

The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.

What Christian love cannot do is effected by a common hatred.

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

Trump loves hate. Trump is afraid. Trump is always wrong.

If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once their tyranny and their divisions.

Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates.

Because love and hate were supposed to stand cleanly on opposite sides of the spectrum. The division seemed as clear as...well, angels and demons would once have seemed to her. Not anymore.

Walls are made of fear; bridges are made of love!

It seemed to me that a great many fences had been put up all over the world, in the long course of history, that were not necessary. Fences round nations, fences round property. They were supposed to be symbols of security, but they were cheating symbols. They had a precisely opposite effect from that which was intended. They did not prevent crime, they incited it; they led not to peace but to war. A world without fences would be a better world.

and she can't wait to get rid of me and she never wants to see me again as long as she lives.

Yes, we have an innate tendency to think in us and them categories, but we look to the leader to help us know who the us is and who the them is. The leader can define who is in and who is out... When the leader draws the circle in an exclusionary way, with the rhetoric of hostility, the sense of threat among the followers is heightened. When the rhetoric is expansive and inclusionary, the threat is reduced.

Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it's a battleground.

At depth, microbes shrink in size and become extremely sluggish. The liveliest of them may divide no more than once a century18, some no more than perhaps once in five hundred years. As The Economist has put it: 'The key to long life, it seems, is not to do too much19.

Sometimes the "them" strategy is just a narcotic to feed the beast in all of us.

All too often, those who rail against "them" prevail over earnest pleas to remember what "we" can be and do together. Our brains have worked this way for a long time. Maybe they always will. But we have to keep trying. That's the permanent mission our Founding Fathers left us—moving toward the "more perfect union.

Our democracy cannot survive its current downward drift into tribalism, extremism, and seething resentment. Today it's "us versus them" in America. Politics is little more than blood sport.

As a result, our willingness to believe the worst about everyone outside our own bubble is growing, and our ability to solve problems and seize opportunities is shrinking.

Our democracy cannot survive its current downward drift into tribalism, extremism, and seething resentment.