Quotes About Division

At the bottom of all the political pontificating is a simple question: Will we be the city upon the hill or a nation of tribalistic assholes?

Microsoft has a division that studies the way people work, to develop efficiency-improving software. (According to Microsoft's research up to 2007, if you're looking for a technological solution to being more efficient, getting a bigger computer screen is one of the few clear winners.)

Slavery makes other people do the hard work. It is no accident that slave labor has historically been associated with tropical and semitropical climes.* The same holds for division of labor by gender: in warm lands particularly, the women toil in the fields and tend to housework, while the men specialize in warfare and hunting; or in modern society, in coffee, cards, and motor vehicles. The aim is to shift the work and pain to those not able to say no.

Christianity spurs hate, division, and murder as it has throughout history.

Not that Marcus had any problems with Mexicans, seeing as they had a common enemy in the Orange One

To each head of a family, one-quarter of a section; To each single person over eighteen years of age, one-eighth of a section; To each orphan child under eighteen years of age, one-eighth

You are a traitor to the entire African bloodline! You don't deserve the blood that Allah has given you! You don't deserve the air that we share. You don't deserve the color that you have on your body. You had to have stolen it! There is no way Allah would have given your

Extremists tend to grow more extreme, not less, as problems get closer to solutions

This is a part of the country that created a nationwide ammunition shortage the day after they saw a non-white president won an election. They

Time to pull the plug on the coma of the left, right paradigm

The body politic: the slow agonizing death of demarcation & the quick Caesarian section birth of chaos.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

Hunger bred anger, anger bred suspicion, suspicion bred crowds, and crowds bred mobs.

As proof that HOW we see things matters, Gen. Montgomery took a preprepared text that had been deemed an innocuous complement to his American troops and delivered it in such a way that his condescension prompted more division than unity.

If Landon took the high road, Gerald L. K. Smith, Father Coughlin, and the Union party took the low. Alarmed at Lemke's failure to gain traction, Union party rhetoric escalated to a level of vituperation seldom seen in American public life. "I'll teach them how to hate," Smith boasted. "Religion and patriotism, keep going on that. It's the only way you can get them really 'het up.'

He's part me and part Clan, and so is Ura. Or rather, she's part Oda and part that man who killed her baby.

A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It becomes a society without a heart, without kindness - a rational and sad society, lacking celebration, divided within itself and given to competition, rivalry and, finally, violence.

She sticks her hand through the fence and wiggles her fingers on the other side. Her fingers are in el norte. She spits through the fence. Only to leave a piece of herself there on American dirt.

This street dead-ends in a fishbowl of concrete: a line of shops to the right, some formidable, blockish government buildings to the left, and a wall directly in front, which is topped with a second wall, which is topped with a third wall, which is topped with razor wire and mounted cameras. It's behind this wall, stretching high up into the sky, that the American flag moves stiffly in the mild wind. Only a few feet away from it, on this side of the fence, a Mexican flag also flies.

She spits through the fence. Only to leave a piece of herself there on American dirt.

In the end, the most enduring legacy of air-conditioning may be the divide it has created between the cool and the damned.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

Men to the left! Women to the right! Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion. Eight simple, short words. Yet that was the moment when I left my mother.