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Quotes About Division

As pessoas que lembram correm o risco de enlouquecer de dor, a dor da morte de sua inocência, a recorrer eternamente; as que esquecem se arriscam a mergulhar em outra espécie de loucura, a loucura de negar a dor e odiar a inocência; e o mundo basicamente se divide entre loucos que lembram e loucos que esquecem.
~ James Baldwin
People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare. Jacques
~ James Baldwin
it takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget.
~ James Baldwin
p.92) I felt very close to him, and really wished to be able to love and honor him as a witness, an ally, and a father. I felt that I knew something of his pain and fury, and, yes even his beauty. Yet precisely because of the reality and the nature of those streets - because of what he conceived as his responsibility and what I took to be min - we would always be strangers, and possibly one day, enemies.
~ James Baldwin
Those fanatics'll never live at peace with one another even though they could, easily. They will never bury their differences even if it costs them their stupid lives." He laughed
~ James Clavell
What nonsense it all is! Catholic and Protestant and Calvinist and Lutherist and every other shitist.
~ James Clavell
It was sometimes said that the only difference between Omaha and the North Pole was all the barbed wire.
~ James D. Hornfischer
But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.
~ James Frey
At times of constitutional uncertainty and social division, parliament needs a greater, not a lesser role, in defining our future.
~ Clive Lewis
It is uncomfortable seeing how very divisive politics has become.
~ James Cleverly
In the legislative arena, especially when the country is closely divided, compromises tend to be the rule the day. But when judges rule this or that policy unconstitutional, there's little room for compromise: One side must win, the other must lose.
~ Neil Gorsuch
The heavyweight division is the division that historically always drives boxing. It's the flagship. That's because even if a guy is a big underdog, one punch turns everything around.
~ Michael Buffer
It turns out that the greatly underestimated downside of technological progress is a fractured world.
~ Isabelle Kocher
The Muslim Brotherhood and the Salifist parties are a real force in the Egyptian society. No civil, liberal government can succeed, even after new elections, if the Islamists are forced to work underground as a foe and the country remains divided.
~ Ahmed Zewail
There's a lot of girls in the division I really like, but I always feel like there's this underlying sense of a potential matchup, potential competition. It adds a different element.
~ Miesha Tate
I will fight with all my power against the divisions that undermine us and which are tearing us apart.
~ Emmanuel Macron
In taking a very sober view of where this president is taking this country, the divisions, the catering to our adversaries, the undermining of national security interests, that I am absolutely a never-Trumper.
~ Alexander Vindman
This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society.
~ Raul Grijalva
There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you're bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don't.
~ Rowan Atkinson
People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable.
~ Phil Klay
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.
~ Hillary Clinton
Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.
~ Romano Prodi
If stem cells divide equally, so both daughter cells look more or less the same, each one becomes another stem cell. If the split is unequal, neurons form prematurely.
~ Sam Kean
There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.
~ David Simon