Quotes About Division

The saddest part of it was that most of the troops fighting with the Portuguese were black Angolans. It has always been like that. Angolans killing Angolans.

Do not equate nationalism with patriotism... Nationalism is the first step on the road to Fascism.

the greatest trick of kings is to fool the poor into thinking we have common cause with the rich simply because we live on the same bog. Then the poor get their heads split open in the battles they fight so the rich can keep their wine cellars well stocked.

There's money, and then there's class. The two are often separated.

Las personas que tan apasionadamente desprecian a la mitad de sus compatriotas son incapaces de sentir el mínimo autorrespeto.

My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

friends of the king can no longer be grip hands with friends of the Commons.

My county? Another concept to which you attach from a distance a rather vague ideal. You want to know what "my country" really is? Nothing more or less than a gathering of shareholders, a form of property, bourgeois mentality, and vanity. Think about all the people in your country whom you wouldn't go near, and you'll see that the ties that are supposed to bind us together don't go very deep....

All of us had been trained to take less than her share at the table, and some of us even hated and feared each other because that's what pressure from above teaches and forces and underclass to do.

People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.

The Southerners, he concluded, "seceded over one thing and fought over one thing, slavery.

Yet history has taught us again and again that a small and rabid group of people can tyrannize a splintered larger group.

There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war.

The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a being which divides again, having permitted himself the illusion of unity for barely an instant. He divides and then reunites.

The Protestants don't believe in Britain and the Catholics don't believe in God. And none of us believes in the future.

The Lebanese civil war was not between the Lebanese; it was a holy war declared on the Christians.

I took notes as they divided the world between those who had stuff taken away from them, and those who took, those who did bad things in a good way- gracefully, effortlessly- and those bumblers who bumbled their way through life.

Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all fighting for the same thing.

It is better to be divided by truth than united in error.

They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in.

It was the nearly universal determination of southern whites to keep blacks subordinate that ultimately proved to be the secessionists' strongest card.

The politicians chose enemies so that they could bind their followers with hate and terror.

Community and anarchy. Politics pulls things together; technology blows them apart.

Take away America's money, and you've got a country of tribes.