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Quotes About Division

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.
~ Leonard Woolf
There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.
~ Will Rogers
Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
~ John Jay Chapman
A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.
~ Cleve Jones
How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.
~ Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.
~ Ani DiFranco
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
~ Jonathan Swift
The "Ways & Means Committee" is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.
~ Will Rogers
The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.
~ Will Rogers
The rhetoric of hate and binarisms pervades the politics of the "Third-World" and of the West.
~ Nyla Ali Khan
There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality
~ Matt Taibbi
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.
~ Arundhati Roy
To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.
~ Rudy Giuliani
Well, it looks as if the top part fell on the bottom part.
~ Dan Quayle
I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.
~ Danny Strong
It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism.
~ Erick Erickson
Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?
~ Walter Kirn
Anarchists have taken over (the GOP).
~ Harry Reid
In America, we have a bifurcated country, we have a polarized country. One of the reasons I think it's polarized is because of identity politics on the left.
~ Paul Ryan
The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy
~ Francis Parker Yockey
Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.
~ Thomas Frank
Politics is but a narrow field.
~ Henry David Thoreau