Quotes About Division

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.

Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.

There will always be, within a party, people who backed one candidate versus people who backed another, and there will be factions in the party, and there's always a little glee faction looking at the difficulty of the other faction.

The world is neither running down nor deterministic, and a strict division of order versus chaos is just wrong.

The Berlin Wall comes down in '89, so then there's basically a vacuum of who was the enemy and then Fox News comes along in '95 and it becomes Democrat versus Republican. Now people on the right are fed a steady diet of anti Democratic party propaganda so they believe Democrats are the enemy and they will not believe anything.

I reject the mobs tearing down statues of our history - north and south, Union and Confederate, founding fathers and veterans.

To make a division of power effectual, a veto in one form or another is indispensable. The right of each to judge for itself of the extent of the power allotted to its share, and to protect itself in its exercise, is what, in reality, is meant by a division of power.

Trump represents a vibrant and fed-up mass of people who see the Republican Party as standing for nothing, so they have turned to someone who can beat the party by standing for anything.

The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.

But sometimes I fear that the people of my country can unite only beside victims' bodies, over coffins and in cemeteries. Like tribesmen who dance around old totems, we ignore the living and can only appreciate the dead.

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

I am interested in the heavyweight division, and I'll tell you why: Many experts say that I shouldn't go up in weight, that I'm too small for it. My size does not allow me to be victorious in this division.

I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of hatred that the Hindu nationalists had been spreading.

In 1918, Germany suffered the ghastly consequences of defeat; France suffered those of victory, the price of which was to divide and embitter French politics and culture and lead to its defeat in 1940.

After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment.

I do not understand those who divide political life from the point of view of political parties.

Some areas of life are not meant to overlap.

One Half of the World does not know how the other Half lives," Franklin once wrote. His sister is his other Half.

Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste.

Some things just aren't meant to go together. Thinks like oil and Water. Orange juice and toothpaste. Wizards and television. ... Maybe some things aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste. Me and Susan.

I figure sometimes that maybe that's why we don't make as much progress as other parts of the nation. People lose so much time from their jobs in lynching other people, and they spend so much money on rope and kerosene and getting likkered-up in advance and other essentials, that there ain't an awful lot of money or man-hours left for practical purposes.

It is horrible how people will use anything as a political monkey wrench and to hell with the country. (Julia Child to Avis DeVoto)

How did that blessing for newlyweds go? May your joys be multiplied and your sorrows divided.

This is what it always comes down to, I realized. There are the ones who believe, and the ones who don't, and caught in the space between them are guns.