Quotes About Division

The haute décor of the San Diego Homicide Division offices could have been lifted straight out of any insurance ajusters' pied-a-terre in Omaha.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

Chuck Norris can divide by zero.

In future we'll have a different type of rich and poor.

Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

And let's get this straight: If we run into orcs on the journey, the first ten are mine. You can fight among yourselves for the others.

You could have a family of one and still drive them apart.

Let 'em call me a racist. It don't make any difference. Whole heap of folks in this country feel the same way I do. Race is what's gonna win this thing for me.

Meanwhile it is to be noted that the whole Scripture of God is divided into two parts: precepts and promises.

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.

Inequality, in other words, is precisely the principle upon which their social life is based and is made possible.

The usual reason given for women's shorter hours is the famous double burden. However, upon closer inspection, this well-worn argument falls apart.[408]

Nor should the basic elements of this program be imperiled by partisanship.

The half is greater than the whole Hesiod, ca. 700 BC

He divided the people in this way to ensure that voting power was under the control not of the rabble but of the wealthy, and he saw to it that the greatest number did not have the greatest power – a principle that we should always stand by in politics.

Cicero reflects exactly that when he sums up Servius Tullius' political objectives in approving tones: 'He divided the people in this way to ensure that voting power was under the control not of the rabble but of the wealthy, and he saw to it that the greatest number did not have the greatest power – a principle that we should always stand by in politics.

An act of senseless Discord produces a Temple of Concord'.

In some cases, even learned Roman lawyers misunderstood what they read in the Twelve Tables. The idea that a defaulting debtor who had several creditors could be put to death and his body divided between them, in appropriately sized pieces, according to the amount owed, looks like one such misunderstanding (or so many modern critics have hoped).

If you compare statistics on different types of households, you find that the presence of an adult male means more additional work for the woman than the presence of a child under ten, even when the man believes himself to be sharing the housework equally.*

Pushing away doesn't cause things to come together, all it causes is for things to be pushed away.