Quotes About Division

Consciously or unconsciously, we carry around concepts of "us" and "them," "right" and "wrong," "worthy" and "unworthy." In this framework, there's not much room for a middle ground; everything is at one pole or another. When groups of people or whole nations get together around these concepts, they can become hugely magnified, which may result in large-scale suffering: discrimination, oppression, war.

Beliefs and ideals have become just another way to put up walls.

There's a lot of anger on our side. We've been lied about, we have been lied to, we've been mischaracterized, Hillary calling people deplorables and this kind of thing.

The definition of a Racist is anybody winning an argument with a liberal.

Religious contention is the devil's harvest.

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.

The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips.

[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.

My wife reports these problems to me, because we are a modern enlightened couple who have divided up our household responsibilities equally along non-gender-stereotypical lines: My wife's responsibilities: Cleanliness, food, décor, clothing, medical care, houseguests, parties, holidays, relatives and all other activities involving human interaction, such as talking. My responsibilities: Things that break, lizards.

It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved.

Historically, Yemen, when not being invaded or colonized by outside powers, from the Ottomans to the British, was fighting itself.

This war has made racists of too many of the and too many of us, and it is the leadership in Khartoum that has stoked this fire, that has brought to the surface, and in some cases created from whole cloth, new hatreds that have bred unprecedented acts of brutality.

The left's obsession with judging us on immutable characteristics is what will eventually reach a tipping point and turn neighbor against neighbor, dividing America . . . and beyond.

the left invents problems to fill the void.

Could there be another civil war in the United States?

They made you hate everyone, even the ones who were like you. That is what they do, so the prisoners will not rise up against them.

Army's most famous division, the 101st Airborne Screaming Eagles.

101st Airborne

it has always been both necessary and proper for man, in his thinking, to divide things up, and to separate them, so as to reduce his problems to manageable proportions; for evidently, if in our practical technical work we tried to deal with the whole of reality all at once, we would be swamped. So, in certain ways, the creation of special subjects of study and the division of labour was an important step forward.

Another problem of fragmentation is that thought divides itself from feeling and from the body. Thought is said to be the mind; we have the notion that it is something abstract or spiritual or immaterial. Then there is the body, which is very physical. And we have emotions, which are perhaps somewhere in between. The idea is that they are all different. That is, we think of them as different. And we experience them as different because we think of them as different.