Quotes About Division

A bus cuts the world in half...

In reality, Lacy realized, this dividing line between her and Peter had been there for years. If you kept your chin up, you might even be able to convince yourself there was nothing separating you. It was only when you tried to cross it, like now, that you understood how real a barrier it could be.

In so many ways my entire career has been about untangling the knots that society tangles itself in as we futilely attempt to separate the us from the them.

because in the past words have only driven them apart.

So you tell me... did this execution really make you feel safer? Did it bring us all closer together? Or did it drive us further apart?

Creation, by definition, is separation. Moving forward means being split apart.

There are the ones who believe, and the ones who don't, and caught in the space between them are guns.

The papers were caught between our bodies, a wedge to drive us apart, like any other lie.

Any military man will tell you that the way to pull two divided groups together is to give them a common enemy. This is what Hitler did, when he came to power in 1933 as chancellor.

Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras ; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

have the impression, and I credit it, that in certain cases a union is no sooner forged than the seed of separation sprouts.

Can I ask you something? He added after a moment. 'yes,' said Shmuel. Bruno thought about it. He wanted to phrase the question just right. 'why are there so many people on that side of the fence?' He asked. 'And what are you all doing there?

Bruno was jealous, he had to wear stupid pants en shoes while the boys at the other side of the fence were wearing nice pyjamas al day long

it was more a matter of time being divided up for you; if the ordained segments were too short, you got little done, while if they were too long, you got less done than you could have.

The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend for.

You find hate more among journalists and politicians at home than among fighting men.

Some said, John, print it, others said, Not so. Some said, It might do good, others said, No.

It will add to your effectiveness, subtract from your weaknesses, divide your workload, and multiply your impact.

An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.

The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition.

Sometimes we are just divided, but we still, for the most part, we have similar hopes and dreams.