Quotes About Division

President Obama's version of America is a divided one - pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed! We are not better off than we were 4 years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or campaign ad can change that.

Every anti-communist is a dog.

being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain.

Lee made small greetings to the others, saw the sour expression of Jubal Early, Ewell's division commander

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Mr. President, is there such incompatibility of interest between the two sections of this country that they can not profitably live together? Does the agriculture of the South injure the manufactures of the North? On the other hand, are they not their life-blood? And think you, if one portion of the Union, however great it might be in commerce and manufactures, was separated from all the agricultural districts, that it would long maintain its supremacy

Northern Virginia could never decide whether it was a suburb of New York or a part of the Confederacy.

the English and the Americans were divided by a common language.

If I identify with anything, it's being an American, which is why I despise how badly we've splintered as a country. The divisions between us aren't new, but the ways we deal with them are. We've lost the social norm of civility. I suspect what's changed is the attitude that we're all in this together. Now it's a me-against-you mentality, and we've turned into a country of aggressively poor losers and bombastic, graceless winners.

Dear friends are throwing away their long-standing, deeply satisfying relationships in the current political climate, tired of seeing opposing posts, each too swept up in the movement to remember that there's someone they love on the other side.

Taking a look at the last decades, it stands to reason that feeding our fears has made us easier to lead, saddling us with only black and white choices on issues nuanced by fifty shades of gray. Divide the people and conquer. Calming down the masses may not be on any leader's agenda, in any party.

Taking a look at the last decades, it stands to reason that feeding our fears has made us easier to lead, saddling us with only black and white choices on issues nuanced by fifty shades of gray. Divide the people and conquer. Calming down the masses may not be on any leader's agenda, in any party. I suspect no one is coming to save us; we can only save ourselves.

I fear that until this rebellion is put down, she'll find herself caught in the middle, claimed by neither side, mistrusted by both.

Leidt de vrede, waar de mensheid te allen tijde naar heeft verlangd en die tot nu toe maar in zo weinig delen van de wereld is verwezenlijkt, er alleen toe dat hij niet wordt gedeeld met degenen die er hun toevlucht zoeken, maar zo agressief wordt verdedigd dat hij er zelf bijna uitziet als een oorlog?

If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people.

What else would you expect? Whites never go inside black's homes. Much less inside their thoughts and feelings. And blacks are just as ignorant of whites. What white kid could hate blacks after spending five minutes in the Beale's house? And what bleak kid could hat whites after answering Mrs. Pickwell's dinner whistle? But the East Enders stayed in the east and the West Enders stayed in the west, and the less they knew about each other, the more they invented.

Brother fought against brother, fathers swung axes against sons in front of their mothers. An invisible force divided people, split families, addled brains. Only the elders remained sane, scurrying from one side to the other, begging the combatants to make peace. They cried in their squeaky voices that there was enough war in the world without starting one in the village.

But hatreds of large groups of people must have been the most valuable of all. I could barely imagine the prize earned by the person who managed to inculcate in all blond, blue-eyed people a long-lasting hatred of dark ones.

There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the Western powers. It doesn't work. It needs to break up into three parts.

In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.

politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.

The more people that are out of work, the better for the Democrat Party. I know you might snicker at that, but it's the damn truth.

They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other.

Cohesion is the bane of effective independence.