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Quotes About Division

I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for...
~ Howard Dean
The politics of fear has brought us everything we are afraid of, including the endless wars, the collapsing economy - all the rest.
~ Jill Stein
When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.
~ John Avlon
Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.
~ John Avlon
Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
~ Alexander Pope
It is both dangerous and absurd for our world to be a group of communions mutually excommunicate.
~ Alan W. Watts
You can't spend months insulting almost every group imaginable and then expect everyone to suddenly sing kumbaya together.
~ Kevin James Shay
Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.
~ Averroes
The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
~ Barry Goldwater
It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
Retreat? We're coming out of here as a Marine division. We're bring ... our dead. Retreat hell! We're just advancing in another direction.
~ General Oliver Prince Smith
Federalism isn't about states' rights. It's about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.
~ Elizabeth Price Foley
Nothing will divide the church so much as the love of power.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Democracy breaks the unity of the Romanian people, dividing it into parties, stirring it up, and so, disunited, exposing it to face the united block of the Judaic power.
~ Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.
~ Thomas Hobbes
This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.
~ Philip K. Dick
the only thing necessary to trigger tribal behaviour in humans is the creation of two completely arbitrary groups. Leave them alone in a room and watch it all begin:
~ Will Storr
I don't like politics.
~ will.i.am
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
~ William Blake
Here, in Egypt, the morning of Alexander's adventure ends. Henceforth he is divided; Alexandria is his first possession and he is no longer free.
~ WILLIAM BOLITHO
They were the Land people. We were the sea people.
~ William Brinkley
For nothing can be sole or whole. That has not been rent.
~ William Butler Yeats
26They might not be able to inflame poor non-slaveholding whites to secession and possible war to protect the planter's investment in slaves, but an appeal to fears of racial amalgamation cut across class lines.
~ William C. Davis
Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
~ William Cowper