Quotes About Division

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Embraces do not matter; they merely indicate the will to love and may as well be followed by defeat as victory. But disregard means that now there needs to be no straining of the eyes, no stretching forth of the hands, no pressing of the lips, because theirs is such a union that they are no longer aware of the division of their flesh.

Het enige dat de mensen verbindt zijn de oorlogen die ze elkaar aandoen.

Likewise, the division between popular and serious work was a scheme perpetrated by academics in need of creating a false pantheon of living writers when it became impossible to come up with fresh dissertation topics (to earn degrees and prestige) concerning the writers in the true pantheon, who had been analyzed to exhaustion.

So, simply divide whatever number you have— either the interest rate or the time —into the number 72, and the answer will be the number you need. If you divide the interest rate into 72, you'll get the time. If you divide the time into 72, you'll get the interest rate.

When the identity of the community is understood in these terms, participation in any form of ethnic division or hatred becomes unthinkable, and ethnic division within the church becomes nothing other than a denial of the truth of the gospel. 'That is why racism is a heresy. One of the church's most urgent pragmatic tasks in the 1990s is to form communities that seek reconciliation across ethnic and racial lines.

Whereas there is among you envy and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

Many false prophets are gone out. Are gone out, that is, are manifest. Before, they lay hid in the Church, but now, by their schisms, they have made themselves known.

Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses.

Dominance can be a tempration to division. "There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.

But after you have been here for a while you realize that inside one country there are two separate worlds.

the furious firepower of the 16 Panzer Division was turned on to our positions. … There was a shout 'Tanks in front!

As the economy has become more specialized and the occupational division of labor has deepened, the Creative Class has increasingly outsourced functions that were previously provided within the family to the Service Class.

If you were from a state that didn't fight for the Confederacy, you were a Yankee.

What is passing for religion in most of the Earth now is its opposite: xenophobia and road rage.

The Golden Mean was considered a fundamental constant by the Egyptians and the fundamental division of the whole into two parts.

Schwaller de Lubicz identifies the Golden Mean as "the fundamental scission," or division of one into two, that creates three things - the original whole and two parts, one in golden proportion to the whole and the other in golden proportion to that.

Later that day Frisch looked me up and said, "You work in a microbiology lab. What do you call the process in which one bacterium divides into two?" And I answered, "binary fission." He wanted to know if you could call it "fission" alone, and I said you could.

That I was named to head the [Theoretical] division," Bethe comments, "was a severe blow to Teller, who had worked on the bomb project almost from the day of its inception and considered himself, quite rightly, as having seniority over everyone then at Los Alamos, including Oppenheimer.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that "us-and-them" seeing, and the dualistic thinking that results, is the foundation of almost all discontent and violence in the world.

Just as the Spirit always makes one out of two, so the evil one invariably makes two out of one!

Christ can hold together everything. In fact, Christ already does this; it is we who resist such wholeness, as if we enjoy our arguments and our divisions into parts.

Ovunque, nella mia vita, io abbia incontrato la religione, ho trovato la discordia, il tentativo di un individuo o di un gruppo di dominare un altro in nome di Dio.