Quotes About Division

In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.

I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me, nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce.

Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.

In war is it who's right, or who's left?

History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust.

All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.

When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

I think that wars will never stop, it's just that there are sides. You have to choose your side. And there are more progressive sides.

In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.

The [Confederate] Flag is - literally - sewed division. People claim it means different things to different people, but it harkens back to the pro-slavery side of the war.

My gut reaction [on Betsy DeVos] was, oh, my God. We are now back into the education wars.

And now that you are out? How does the world seem to you?" he says. "Mostly the same," I say. "People are just divided by different things, fighting different wars.

Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.

Donald Trump's going to start a war, he's going to start attacking immigrants or Muslims or Black Lives Matter or whatever. Because he's going to have to distract them from the no jobs.