Quotes About Division

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

Men are separated by so many petty things.

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.

When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?

What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.

People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole.

All men are brothers. Hence war.

War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.

Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

Ours is another luster, as if a soul had died outside the world and divided itself in two — Tess Gallagher, from "I Don't Know You," Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2011)

For now, tribal instincts backed by institutional machinery, still prop up the old split'.

Convert any common fraction to a decimal fraction by dividing the lower number (denominator) into the upper number (numerator). For example, ¾ = 3 + 4 = 0.75. The result is also known as a proportion. Multiply it by 100 to convert it into a percentage. Recognition

denn die Deutschen, wenn sich irgendwas auftut, zerfallen immer gleich wieder in zwei Teile.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of continuing to be a nation at all would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us

The Philosopher, too, says of the wicked (Ethic. ix, 4) that "their soul is divided against itself . . . one part pulls this way, another that"; and afterwards he concludes, saying: "If wickedness makes a man so miserable, he should strain every nerve to avoid vice.

Objection 6: Further, evening and morning do not sufficiently divide the day, since the day has many parts. Therefore the words, "The evening and morning were the second day" or, "the third day," are not suitable. Objection 7: Further, "first," not "one," corresponds to "second" and "third." It should therefore have been said that, "The evening and the morning were the first day," rather than "one day.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

One gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist and feminist in England.

The heavyweight division needs me.