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Quotes About Division

Herr Kulmbach had been saying the Führer had united the whole German nation. Which is true enough, it's just that the people making up the whole German nation don't get on with each other. But that doesn't make any difference to political unity, I suppose.
~ Unknown
Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
~ Irving Layton
Les hommes construisent trop de murs et pas assez de ponts.
~ Isaac Newton
Los hombres construimos demasiados muros y no suficientes puentes.
~ Isaac Newton
The physiological homogeneity of human labour was a necessary presupposition of the social division of labour, but only at a determined level of social development and in a determined social form of economy does the labour of the individual have the character of a form of manifestation of human labour in general. We would not be exaggerating if we said that perhaps the concept of man in general and of human labour in general emerged on the basis of the commodity economy.
~ Unknown
Cosa li spinge a questa vita, cosa li spinge a combattere, dimmi? [...] E' l'offesa della loro vita, il buio della loro strada, il suicidio della loro casa, le parole oscene imparate fin da bambini, la fatica di dover essere cativi. E basta un nulla, un passo falso, un impennamento dell'anima e ci si ritrova dall'altra parte, come Pelle, dalla brigata nera, a sparare con lo stesso furore, con lo stesso odio, contro gli uni o contro gli altri, fa lo stesso.
~ Italo Calvino
Forgive me if I have a kind of allergic reaction to all words that hint of nationalism...
~ Italo Calvino
I sogni dei partigiani sono rari e corti, sogni nati dalle notti di fame, legati alla storia del cibo sempre poco e da dividere in tanti: sogni di pezzi di pane morsicati e poi chiusi in un cassetto
~ Italo Calvino
What line separates the inside from the outside, the rumble of wheels from the howl of wolves?
~ Italo Calvino
Downtown is divided again, between the blocks of brick emporiums of the 1880s and a straggle of modern stores which look as if they have been squeezed from a tube labeled Instant Shopping Center.
~ Ivan Doig
P24- the power of school loss to divide social reality has no boundaries education becomes unworldly and the world becomes noneducational
~ Ivan Illich
As long as you hold an improved self-image as a future possibility, you simultaneously hold the image of yourself as inadequate and incomplete. You are, in effect, a house divided.
~ Unknown
As the Christ for all human beings, Jesus takes hold of our divided and peaceless human society at its lowest point, among the miserable, the despised and the unimportant.
~ Jurgen Moltmann
Smears, character assassination, and the scattering of irresponsible charges have no place in this nation. They create division, suspicion, and distrust among loyal Americans—just what the communists want—and hinder rather than aid the fight against communism.
~ J. Edgar Hoover
Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.
~ Dagobert D. Runes
Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love.
~ Dagobert D. Runes
1980, Leah and Sophie voted for Reagan. My father wouldn't speak to them for six months.
~ Unknown
Everything at times of transition takes on a symbolic weight and power. But this too is why he travels. The world you're moving through flows into another one inside, nothing stays divided any more, this stands for that, weather for mood, landscape for feeling, for every object there is a corresponding inner gesture, everything turns into metaphor. The border is a line on a map, but also drawn inside himself somewhere.
~ Damon Galgut
On that lonely road they looked like mirror images of each other. Perhaps each of them thought of real communication as unnecessary, words divide by multiplying, what was certain was the oneness underneath the words. But now they refrain from talking because it might reveal to them how dangerously unlike one another they are. An image in a mirror is a reversal, the reflection and the original are joined but might cancel each other out.
~ Damon Galgut
The distinction between Trade and Warfare is seen only by those who have no experience of either.? -Heironymo Sondar, House Sondar
~ Dan Abnett
Everybody could have everything they wanted, so there would no longer be any real need for class divisions. Capitalism was destined to create the conditions necessary for the coming of the true "end of history", in which all contradictions disappear. However, for the end of history to come, capitalism must first collapse and make room for true communism. This will necessarily happen, according to Marx, because of the inner workings of capitalism.
~ Unknown
Smith believed that economic growth stems from specialization. The best way to maximize profit and the efficiency of production was for people to specialize in a few select skills, rather than produce whole products themselves.
~ Unknown
In Jerusalem, belief as a form of aggression achieved near perfection. Whether you went deep in the earth or climbed the highest hill, someone's faith would track you down, catch you in its sights, and demand that you choose sides.
~ Unknown
arithmetic.
~ Dan Gutman