Quotes About Division

the way like-minded people working to solve the same problem will engage in continuous civil war with each other over methods, thus destroying their chances of success.

When you have a strong conservative streak in your society," Zeyk would say, "which detaches itself from the progressive streak, that's when you get the worst kinds of civil wars.

There was scientifically supported evidence to show that if the Earth's available resources were divided up equally among all eight billion humans, everyone would be fine. They would all be at adequacy, and the scientific evidence very robustly supported the contention that people living at adequacy, and confident they would stay there (a crucial point), were healthier and thus happier than rich people. So the upshot of that equal division would be an improvement

Nadia shook her head, marveling at the capacity people had for ignoring what they had in common, and fighting bitterly over whatever small differences existed between them. She

Where there is faction, there is conflict; where there is conflict, there is anger. And anger distorts judgment.

People need something to hate to reinforce their own identities.

People need something to hate to reinforce their own identities. And

People feel the need to choose sides when a relationship splits - it's human nature.

With stones, you can build walls to separate people or build bridges to unite them.

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God.

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the Jews.

When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.

He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.

Everywhere religion has gone it has created disunity.

And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.

Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another.

All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.

Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.

Religion turned some folks belligerent.