Quotes About Division

I am come to set a man at variance with his father,"4 Jesus had said. "If any man come to me and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my follower.

Life was already sorting them into categories, whether they liked it or not. All they could do was stare at each other dumbly across the widening gaps.

Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.

Ideally the megamachine's personnel should consist of celibates, detached from family responsibilities, communal institutions, and ordinary human affections: such day-to-day celibacy as we actually find in armies, monasteries, and prisons. For the other name for the division of labor, when it reaches the point of solitary confinement at a single task for a whole lifetime, is the dismemberment of man.

By the time Herodotus visited Egypt in the fifth century B.C., the over-all division of labor and the minute subdivision into specialisms had reached a point comparable to that which it has come to again in our own time; for he records that "some physicians are for the eyes, others for the head, others for the teeth, others for the belly, and others for internal disorders.

Through its complex orchestration of time and space, no less than through the social division of labor, life in the city takes on the character of a symphony: specialized human aptitudes, specialized instruments, give rise to sonorous results which, neither in volume nor in quality, could be achieved by any single piece. Cities

The one thing I think we learned this year is that the Democrats and the Republicans are completely worthless.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.

I beg you to stop your arguing and listen. The prophets speak of this time, when the Chosen One of God will cleave us apart, separating the believers from those who will be cast into the outer darkness. Have you ever in all your days seen a time when the division has been clearer? Have you ever known a time when miracles rained down from an empty sky, when the prophets' words were so clearly being fulfilled?

Sanotaan että politiikassa saa outoja petikumppaneita, niin myös yhteisessä vihassa.

Prejudice is best lubricated with ignorance

The Nursery Crime Division was not disbanded and is still active to this day.

The language of division can always be monetised.

Desdemona had learned early in life that the world was divided into two groups, those who loved the theater and barbarians.

They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.

The truth is that you can divide your heart in all sorts of interesting ways - a little here, a little there, most banked at home, some of it coined out for a flutter. But love cleaves through the mind's mathematics. Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be. How will you heal your heart when love has split it in two?

Bridges join but they also separate.

When you dig under the surface, past the necessities, men and women don't mix.

Enemigo de cuanto lleva el nombre de partido, facción o cábala, jamás he esperado nada bueno de las personas que a ellos pertenecen.

The world seemed divided into girls with boyfriends and girls without them.

Temporality is obviously an organised structure, and these three so-called elements of time: past, present, future, must not be envisaged as a collection of 'data' to be added together...but as the structured moments of an original synthesis. Otherwise we shall immediately meet with this paradox: the past is no longer, the future is not yet, as for the instantaneous present, everyone knows that it is not at all: it is the limit of infinite division, like the dimensionless point.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.