Quotes About Division

The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

I know two types of law because I know two types of men, those who are with us and those who are against us.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was. The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it.

Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man's greatest efforts.

It takes nine tailors to make a man.

I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.

It would bring tears in your eyes to make you think of all those years, the type of brain-washing that this man will use in America to keep us separated from our own people.

I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

What the common man cannot understand he hates.

Even the word 'science' comes from an Indo-European root meaning 'to cut' or 'to separate.' The same root led to the word 'shit,' which of course means to separate living flesh from nonliving waste. The same root gave us 'scythe' and 'scissors' and 'schism,' which have obvious connections to the concept of separation.

I get it," Richard said. "But is that all we are? Just digital Crips and Bloods?

All that Democrat/Republican stuff is bullshit, he said. And as far as liberal versus conservative, well, people are very promiscuous in the way the use those words. They don't really mean anything. Within those two camps there are very wide divisions. And between those two camps, there is a lot more overlap than you think. None of that bullshit really matters. The only thing that matters is values.

All these beefy Caucasians with guns! Get enough of them together, looking for the America they always believed they'd grow up in, and they glom together like overcooked rice, form integral, starchy little units.

Trying to, you know, persuade others to join our side. Trying to make the other side look bad. Just like the Internet always was.

Even the word 'science' comes from an Indo-European root meaning 'to cut' or 'to separate.' The same root led to the word 'shit,' which of course means to separate living flesh from nonliving waste. The same root gave us 'scythe' and 'scissors' and 'schism,' which have obvious connections to the concept of separation.

It is the hardest thing in the world to make educated Westerners pull together

Paris to Jack and most others, then, was a network of deep trenches with vertical walls, and a few drafty battlements atop those walls—otherwise, the world's largest collection of closed and locked doors.

Odessa Jones probably had ancestors who, like him, were rootless white trash, but who had picked up rifles and gone North to fight the Yankees anyway, not because they believed in slavery but because they were incensed that the Northerners refused to stay at home and mind their own business.