Quotes About Division

despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.

they got numbers 20 guns apart.

I have the feeling you are primarily two people,one of which should be killed.

In the First Book of Chronicles Chapter 24 Verse 10…

The idea of parts of the body public fighting each other was like the idea of a man's punching himself in the face. It was a physical blasphemy that suited this era as an index of how far it had all gone.

To get there, we have to kill mellow-yellow, docile, unemotional, Lotus-sitting Jesus, drinking kombucha and finding us little humans mildly amusing while trying to clear his head of conflict and division, "contemplating all," as Tennyson put it.

God, who made Eden, also wrecked the tower of Babel, by dividing people.

The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices.

Attacking an outsider makes them all insiders.

The right way to collaborate, I think, is to divide projects into sharply defined modules, each with a definite owner

Money is a side effect of specialization. In a specialized society, most of the things you need, you can't make for yourself. If you want a potato or a pencil or a place to live, you have to get it from someone else. How do you get the person who grows the potatoes to give you some? By giving him something he wants in return. But you can't get very far by trading things directly with the people who need them.

creating paradoxes that are clearly apparent on the border.

just ten steps from one country to the other, a door in the wall

They shared the chores of living as some couples do --she did most of the work and he appreciated it.

Feminists too often believe that no one has never experienced the kind of society that empowered women and made that empowerment the basis of rules and civilization. The price the feminist community must pay because it is not aware is necessary confusion, division and much lost time.

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

The world has never been as divided as it is now, what with religious wars, genocides, a lack of respect for the planet, economic crisis, depression, poverty, with everyone wanting instant solutions to at least some of the world's problems or their own. And things only look bleaker as we head into future.

A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

The world does not divide into enemies and friends, but into the weak and strong.

The world has never been as divided as it is now.

That is what I hate most about this war game. It cuts off communication between peoples. We cannot ask questions and so we cannot get answers.

Children do divide a woman, in an odd sort of way.