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Quotes About Division

So they were married-to be the more together- And found they were never again so much together, Divided by the morning tea, By the evening paper, By children and tradesmen's bills
~ Louis MacNeice
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division make barren our lives.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
It is hard to find reason when you're being torn in two.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Laurie stood casting his long shadow on the room behind him, silent in a grief and wonder too deep for tears, that life was so divided and irreconcilable, and the good so implacably the enemy of the best.
~ Mary Renault
And this is how otherwise reasonable people end up throwing rocks at one another,
~ Unknown
The notion of justice creates an irreparable split between the just and the unjust, the righteous and the unrighteous, whereas the notion of wisdom evokes the sense of equality and solidarity.
~ Unknown
Back during the war, the sides were a lot clearer. Now that we're fighting other humans again as well, things get muddy real fast. Many soldiers who were fantastic against the Covenant have now balked at battling the Front or any of the other dozens of homegrown terrorist groups across our worlds.
~ Matt Forbeck
As a species, we love to divide things up. We draw a straight line in a map between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans while the water remains oblivious.
~ Matt Haig
Los humanos son una especie arrogante, que se define por su violencia y su avaricia. No se les ha ocurrido otra cosa que conducir a su propio planeta, el único al que ahora mismo tienen acceso, por el camino de la destrucción. Han creado un mundo de divisiones y categorías, y son incapaces de ver las similitudes entre ellos mismos.
~ Matt Haig
the likelihood of getting cancer depends in large part on how often a person experiences injury or certain types of injury. This is just math. More injury means more cell division and, simply, more opportunity for dangerous mutation to occur.
~ Unknown
I look around. You'd have to be out of your fucking mind to write, as Marcus did, that Black History Month is a ploy to lever more entitlement money out of Congress, but the ho-hum nonresponse of the white crowd reading this bit of transparent insanity is, to me, even weirder.
~ Matt Taibbi
America has been trending stupid for a long time. Now the stupid wants out of its cage, and Trump is urging it on.
~ Matt Taibbi
To continue present policies is to make permanent the division of our country into two societies; one, largely Negro and poor, located in the central cities; the other, predominantly white and affluent, located in the suburbs and in outlying areas.
~ Matt Taibbi
Sixty million people were announcing that they preferred one reality to another. Inherent in this decision was the revolutionary idea that you can choose your own set of facts. Blue-state
~ Matt Taibbi
Win or lose, Trump's campaign threatens to unleash the Great American Stupid S
~ Matt Taibbi
in less than a year Trump has succeeded in turning the USA into a massive high school—the candidate beams. What
~ Matt Taibbi
So long as we remain a bitterly divided two-party state, we'll never want for TV villains.
~ Matt Taibbi
Who we hate just depends on what channel we watch.
~ Matt Taibbi
The epic struggle to pass health care reform was at once a shameless betrayal of the public trust of historic proportions and proof that a nation that perceives itself as being divided into red and blue should start paying attention to a third color that rules the day in Washington—a sort of puke-colored politics that puts together deals like this one and succeeds largely through its mastery of the capital city's bureaucracy.
~ Matt Taibbi
one story everyone can safely cover is how much we hate each other. There's no institutional or commercial taboo that story violates.
~ Matt Taibbi
Eric Garner was murdered by history. The motive was the secret sin of a divided society, a country frozen in time for more than fifty years, stopped one crucial step short of reconciliation and determined to stay there.
~ Matt Taibbi
In 2016 especially, news reporters began to consciously divide and radicalize audiences. The cover was that we were merely "calling out" our divisive new president, Donald Trump. But from where I sat, the press was now working in collaboration with Trump, acting in his simplistic mirror image, creating a caricatured oppositional demographic and feeding it content. As Trump rode to the White House, we rode to massive profits. The only losers were the American people
~ Matt Taibbi
So long as the public is busy hating each other and not aiming its ire at the more complex financial and political processes going on off-camera, there's very little danger of anything like a popular uprising.
~ Matt Taibbi
Does anyone seriously believe that powerful people would allow truly dangerous ideas to be broadcast on TV? The news today is a reality show where you're part of the cast: America vs. America, on every channel.
~ Matt Taibbi