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Quotes About Division

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
When Trump was elected, there were three parties in Washington: the Trump party, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
~ Steve Schmidt
Health care has become a political football that is being tossed back and forth by both sides in Washington. And it's divided our country.
~ Matthew Heineman
I've never seen Washington as divided as we are right now.
~ Judy Woodruff
And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.
~ Herman Cain
There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.
~ Robert M. Gates
What strikes me when I leave Washington is the extent to which there's a huge disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country. The rest of the country is not hyper partisan.
~ Mark McKinnon
The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.
~ Fareed Zakaria
The reason we're getting bombed is 'cause we were on one side, and we're gonna remain on that side. We can't waver because these are our enemies right now. I'm sorry. I'm gonna say it out loud. The Arabs, that's right, are our enemies. That's right.
~ Jimmie Walker
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
~ Ludwig Erhard
Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
~ Noam Chomsky
Thursday night football is here to stay. So we're looking at ways to make it safer. Now they're playing division games, so you limit travel. Now the question is, should you play Sunday night before a Thursday night?
~ John Madden
We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half.
~ Chen Shui-bian
We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong.
~ Roxane Gay
We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
~ Mahmoud Abbas
We cannot be a house divided - divided in will, divided in interest, divided in soul. We cannot be a house divided and live.
~ Stephen Vincent Benet
Both the country, and my party, are beset with division. We cannot bring the country back together unless the party of government is united, and the party cannot unite if it is led from its fringes.
~ James Cleverly
It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.
~ Michael Morpurgo
When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.
~ Keith Jarrett
It's the heavyweight division, man: there's a bunch of big guys, so anything can happen when they hit you. But I have plans, and feel I get better every fight.
~ Stipe Miocic
I don't think music should be played anywhere near politics. The two don't go together.
~ Leon Redbone