Quotes About Division

The Word of God always speaks of two great divisions of mankind, and only two. It speaks of the living and the dead in sin, the believer and the unbeliever, the converted and the unconverted, the travelers in the narrow way and the travelers in the broad, the wise and the foolish, the children of God and the children of the devil.

Cuando los abuelos enfermaron, varios años después de que yo me fuera de Nueva York, mi madre y la suya se habían peleado sobre quién debía hacerse cargo de ellos, y la dureza de aquella pelea, que acabó en los tribunales y no terminó hasta que los dos murieron en 1997, dividió en dos a la familia. McGraw y sus hermanas, incluida Sheryl, ya no me hablaban, porque ellos habían apoyado a su madre, y yo a la mía.

To the Russians, it doesn't matter if a Republican or Democrat is in the presidency or what party controls Congress; their intent is to divide the nation and they can do it through the smartphone in your pocket.

wagons were circled, accusations were made, insults were hurled, and the nation was once again divided along party lines.

We are not so much defined by the wars we fight across the globe, but by the wars we have fought within ourselves as a nation.

The New York Times proclaimed that if the votes in South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana were certified in favor of Tilden, thus electing him over Hayes, the North—twelve years following Appomattox—would have lost the Civil War to the South: "it will be the sign of the subjugation of the nation by the rebels." The

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

Eight years after the joy of electing our first black president, racial tensions only worsened. Despite the nation uniting to shatter the black ceiling, today we seem more divided than before.

If you believe, as I do, that homosexuality is not a sin and is not prohibited by the Bible, then the next question becomes, How do we heal the church of this injustice that has divided us?

The Irish people didn't get on that well with each other either. They hated the Catholics, was the main issue, as I see. You can't blame them for that. If I understand correctly, Catholics do not believe in contraception. So, you know, sex is not relaxing.

For me, this was not a question of opposing voices from below to discourse from above, but of reflecting on the relation of division of discourses and division of conditions, of grasping the interplay of borders and transgressions according to which the effects of speech that seize human bodies becomes ordered or disturbed" p.227.

?ki ki?i aras?nda bar?? mümkündü, ama say? art?nca her ?ey berbat oluyordu.

Allen Westberlinern war gemeinsam, dass sie nur selten den Ostteil der Stadt besuchten. Der Eintritt nach Ostberlin war mit fünfundzwanzig D-Mark einfach zu teuer. Zwar erhielt man im Gegenzug fünfundzwanzig Ostmark, aber es fand sich weit und breit keine Möglichkeit, das Ostgeld auszugeben. An der Grenze wurde man unhöflich behandelt und wenn man bis Mitternacht nicht wieder zurück war, musste man nochmal fünfundzwanzig Mark bezahlen.

it's easier and more profitable to keep selling outrage than build any bridges.

Luke thus provides the last part of the prophetic pattern, that of rejection by the people. As Simeon foretold, this will be worked out in the subsequent narrative in terms of a division within Israel between those who do and those who do not accept this prophet. But this ominous opening already suggests a reason why many Jews later on in Acts reject the Gospel, precisely because it is meant for all (cf. e.g., Acts 13:44–52).

Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.

Abusers drive wedges between people, by accident or by design.

in every election their votes cancel each other, and they are as no one.

If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

From the beginning, a gulf of understanding had divided the Gaullists and the leaders of the resistance movements, who risked their lives daily and who greatly resented their compatriots in London who, in their view, had lived out the war in comfort and safety, with none of the daily tension, terror, and privations of occupation.

we divided the scope into four quadrants and let each person have a quadrant of the scope." That was one each for Fredkin, Lick, Minsky, and McCarthy—a format that quite possibly represented the first "windows" ever to appear on a computer screen.

Christmas had done its usual merry work of setting husband against wife, relative against relative, and spreading bad will among men in general.

The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other

Disgusting Serbs, get out!