Quotes About Division

divide things equally between both children? If anything should happen to her she is appealing to him to honor this final wish. It is the first letter she has written to her husband in over fifty years, an admission that makes her choke back a tear. Fifty years. The golden jubilee that neither remembered. Fields let for grazing. No more the proud neighing thoroughbreds in the fields, the thoroughbreds on which his hopes centered

By 1787, four years since the United States secured its independence, Washington had come to believe that the country faced as grave a threat from internal forces of disunion in the mid-1780s as it had from external ones of tyranny in the mid-1770s, when he accepted leadership of the patriot army at the outset of the Revolutionary War.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

A house divided against itself cannot stand,' Ã¢â'¬Â he said in a high-pitched voice. "I believe this government cannot endure

Abraham Lincoln on October 1, 1858, less than four months after his famous "House Divided" speech.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

we wept within the moment that was dividing our life into before and after, whereby the before was forever foreclosed, while the after was spreading out, like an exploding twinkle-star, into a dark universe of pain.

Saint-Simon was aware of the role of class struggle in history. Thus he divided contemporary French society into the industriels and the oisifs—those who worked, and the rich parasites who lived off their labor.

No matter what tribe you are in - you've got to hand it to the architects of the Brexit Referendum. Taking an incredibly complex decision and reducing it to a Yay or Nay vote is the perfect divide-and-conquer strategy. At a time when the 99% need to rise up against the 1% we are split right down the middle. An absolute guarantee of little change, ever.

The whole thing was like a divorce. When we divided everything up, Courtney got my dignity, and I got the heartache.

Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.

all communities divide themselves into the few and the many. the first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people

But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

when a people or family so divide, it never fails to be against themselves

The inference to which we are brought is, that the CAUSES of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its EFFECTS. If

The inference to which we are brought is, that the causes of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects.

Divide et impera(1) must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.(2)

it ought not to be forgotten that the demon of faction will, at certain seasons, extend his sceptre over all numerous bodies of men.

Regard to reputation has a less active influence when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided among a number than when it is to fall singly upon one.

It was remarked in the preceding paper, that weakness and divisions at home would invite dangers from abroad; and that nothing would tend more to secure us from them than union, strength, and good government within ourselves. This subject is copious and cannot easily be exhausted.

Party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Polarization (is) a tendency for groups to form judgments that are more extreme than individuals' personal opinions.