Quotes About Division

and the two need to be kept separate.

As Arnold had demonstrated, the real enemy was not Great Britain, but those Americans who sought to undercut their fellow citizens' commitment to one another.

Wars were fought over the different interpretations of the same doctrine.

You see, a conflict always begins with an issue—a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.

The fact is, 100 percent of you will still be alive, just in a divided state.

Hello, Jackass Dirtbag," says a perky computer voice. "Welcome to your divisional experience! I am your fully automated Unwinding Intelli-System, but you can call me UNIS.

They were all alike, these Unwinds; sucking valuable resources from those more deserving, and clinging to their pathetic individuality, rather than accepting peaceful division.

war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other." The

Only idiots build walls.

And everyone was selecting their leaders not by their ability to lead, but by where they stood on this single issue.

And everyone was selecting their leaders not by their ability to lead, but by where they stood on this single issue. It was beyond madness.

She can't recall whether these were the colors of the pro-life or pro-choice forces, but then, it doesn't really matter. Both sides lost.

Don't be ridiculous," Goddard said. "Only idiots build walls.

The trouble is that there are too many Chinks. When you kill a Chink he splits in half and becomes two Chinks.

The area dividing the brain and the soul Is affected in many ways by experience — Some lose all mind and become soul: insane. Some lose all soul and become mind: intellectual. Some lose both and become: accepted.

In this he was echoing conclusions drawn centuries before by Pedro Pizarro. Had Wayna Qhapaq "been alive when we Spaniards entered this land," the conquistador remarked, "it would have been impossible for us to win it.… And likewise, had the land not been divided by the [smallpox-induced civil] wars, we would not have been able to enter or win the land.

Charles J. Shields

What better way to weaken a powerful enemy than to get it fighting itself?

Have you not heard that when two brothers fight a stranger reaps the harvest?

2470 He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

In Fritz Lang's Metropolis, society is divided into two groups: one of planners and thinkers living in luxury high above the Earth, and another of workers, dwelling and toiling underground to run the machine that sustains the wealthy. The film is about the workers' revolt, but the broader point is clear. Abundance comes at a cost: scarcity elsewhere.

If you're troubled by the fact that 80/10 doesn't add up to 100, you've discovered the second confusing thing about the Rule. The 80 and the 20 are percentages of different things, and thus don't need to equal 100.

There will always remain a division of labor between professionals and amateurs. But it may be more difficult to tell the two groups apart in the future.

To be united by hatred is a fragile alliance at best.