Quotes About Division

So many riches. So much power. And all we had to do was decide. Would we cleave together or cleave apart?

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

Jerry's fortune cookie said: "Tension, apprehension and dissension have begun.

çevrendeki her ?eyi kesin çizgilerle ikiye ay?rd?n. (Bu bak?mdan da sana benzedi?imi itiraf etmeliyim.) Dünyada yaln?z güzellerle çirkinler vard?, bir insan ya ak?ll?yd? ya da aptal, senin gibi ba??n? dik tutmas?n? bilemeyen bütün insanlar dalkavuktu; sana benzemeyen kibar davran??l? insanlar? da züppelikle suçlard?n.

he still knows how to rouse his rabble, how to reach out to poor people, and sic them on other poor people. How much of this nonsense does he believe, I wonder, and how much does he say just because he knows the value of dividing in order to conquer and to rule?

How much of this nonsense does he believe, I wonder, and how much does he say just because he knows the value of dividing in order to conquer and to rule? Well

Is a pea cut in half one wounded thing or two?

How much of this nonsense does he believe, I wonder, and how much does he say just because he knows the value of dividing in order to conquer and to rule?

Even my mother said that things were improving. Yet Andrew Steele Jarret was able to scare, divide, and bully people, first into electing him President, then into letting him fix the country for them. He didn't get to do everything he wanted to do. He was capable of much greater fascism. So were his most avid followers.

He's had to distance himself from the worst of his followers. But he still knows how to rouse his rabble, how to reach out to poor people, and sic them on other poor people. How much of this nonsense does he believe, I wonder, and how much does he say just because he knows the value of dividing in order to conquer and to rule?

I didn't know how bad it would be or when it would come. But everything was getting worse: the climate, the economy, crime, drugs, you know. I didn't believe we would be allowed to sit behind our walls, looking clean and fat and rich to the hungry, thirsty, homeless, jobless, filthy people outside.

When no influence is strong enough To unify people They divide.

When apparent stability disintegrates, As it must— God is Change— People tend to give in To fear and depression, To need and greed. When no influence is strong enough To unify people They divide. They struggle, One against one, Group against group, For survival, position, power.

Turn a few pages and you'll find a white man named J. D. B. DeBow claiming that slavery is good because, among other things, it gives poor whites someone to look down on. That's history. It happened whether it offends you or not.

everything was getting worse: the climate, the economy, crime, drugs, you know. I didn't believe we would be allowed to sit behind our walls, looking clean and fat and rich to the hungry, thirsty, homeless, jobless, filthy people outside.

I find this division of people into three groups—skiers, allergy sufferers and drivers—very convincing. It is a good, straightforward typology. Skiers are hedonists. They are carried down the slopes. Whereas drivers prefer to take their fate in their hands, although their spines often suffer as a result; we all know life is hard. Whereas the allergy sufferers are always at war. I must surely be an allergy sufferer.

But why should we have to be useful and for what reason? Who divided the world into useless and useful, and by what right? Does a thistle have no right to life, or a Mouse that eats the green in a warehouse? What about Bees and Drones, weeds and roses? Whose intellect can have had the audacity to judge who is better, and who worse?

Who divided the world into useless and useful, and by what right?

Kto? taki jak pan b?dzie budzi? niech?? i nienawi??, bo b?dzie jasno przypomina?, ?e wizja ?wiata bia?o-czarnego jest wizj? k?amliw? i niszcz?c?.

I find this division of people into three groups - skiers, allergy sufferers and drivers - very convincing. It is a good, straightforward typology. Skiers and hedonists. They are carried down the slopes. Whereas drivers prefer to take date in their hands, although their spines often suffer as a result; we all know life is hard. Whereas the allergy sufferers are always at war.

One writer excels at a plan or a title page, another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

Of course, with the arrival of both Washington and General Lincoln, La Fayette had lost his command and was again the leader of a mere division

A hair divides what is false and true.

The above difference between Eno and Jinshu later came to cause the division of Zen Buddhism into two branches: the Southern School, derived from Hui-neng, and the Northern School, stemming from Shenhsiu. The former advocated direct seeing into one's original Buddha nature—that is, sudden awakening to one's self-nature. The latter taught gradual awakening through perpetual endeavor to keep one's mind clean.