Quotes About Division

Marriage has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided. (from Feminism, the Body, and the Machine)

The irony is, if we divide ourselves for our own comfort, no one will have comfort.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

This is the true nature of home—it is the place of peace: the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt and division … —John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies

While Obama merely bowed clumsily in the direction of Idiot America, John McCain set up housekeeping there.

To be conscious is already to be divided, to be multiple.

the church has allowed itself to become dangerously polarized into two camps: politicized and privatized views of faith. The problem is, neither view has anything to do with historic Christianity.

The city belongs to the black man. The white man was a convenient target until there were no white men left in Detroit. What used to be black and white is now gray. Whites got the suburbs and everything else. The black machine's got the city and the black machine's at war with itself. The spoils go to the one who understands that.

In Detroit, we all talked the race game. It is a way of life.

No, when the herd wanted to take refuge in an idea, it preferred to be blind to that idea's opposite.

Think about this, the people gave birth to me cannot stop hating each other enough. What does that tell you about me? Half of my genes must be fighting with other half, no wonder I am so fucking messed up.

I thought about my [Punjabi] family. The only nakshatram we think about is the division of petrol pumps when we have to see the girl.

I don't think Indians have learnt much since that day. We remain as divided as ever. Everyone still tries to cut a deal for themselves while the nation goes to hell.

Today, the world is looking at India to get its act together. We, on the other hand, are busy finding differences and reasons to hate each other.

Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.

Some people say we are on the verge of the second Civil War. And it may be so. But even on the darkest days, cheerfulness kept breaking in.

War either makes you a fascist or a fag.)

We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Agnes Newton Keith Three Came Home

America is on the point of bursting into flames

Monroe's presidency made poor men rich, turned political allies into friends, and united a divided people as no president had done since Washington.

He supported Jefferson's proposed Land Ordinance of 1784,22 ceding Virginia's western territory to Congress for division into fourteen future states in which "there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude." Congress defeated the Ordinance by one vote.

President-elect Lincoln to his confidants: "The people of the South do not know us. They are not allowed to receive Republican papers down there.

The author observers that better technology actually increased division because rival outlets funded by rival parties could get their slant to the partisans

It is impossible to make peace with the Roman Catholic Church. It is one of the permanent enemies of all that is decent in human spirit.