Quotes About Division

It's an old split. Like the one between art and art history. One does it and the other talks about how it's done and the talk about how it's done never seems to match how one does it.

In all of the Oriental religions great value is placed on the Sanskrit doctrine of Tat tvam asi, "Thou art that," which asserts that everything you think you are and everything you think you perceive are undivided. To realize fully this lack of division is to become enlightened.

And so in recent times we have seen a huge split develop between a classic culture and a romantic counterculture—two worlds growingly alienated and hateful toward each other with everyone wondering if it will always be this way, a house divided against itself. No one wants it really—despite what his antagonists in the other dimension might think.

It's an old split. Like the one between art and art history. One does it and the other talks about how it's done and the talk about how it's done never seems to match how one does it. DeWeese

US/THEM-ING TYPICALLY involves inflating the merits of Us concerning core values—we are more correct, wise, moral, and worthy when it comes to knowing what the gods want/running the economy/raising kids/fighting this war. Us-ness also involves inflating the merits of our arbitrary markers, and that can take some work—rationalizing why our food is tastier, our music more moving, our language more logical or poetic.

the Yankee dollar and Confederate dumbness combined to heal the wounds of four years of fratricidal strife. . .

Indeed, we are slowly reverting to the conditions of earlier times, when societies were divided into a small class of rentiers and a large class of servants, without, however, the hierarchical structure which made such inequality of status more palatable.

Last year, one of our divisions had to return over a billion dollars because they could not find anyone who qualified for it.

he doesn't have the normal share of miterosis.

How do you divide yourself between killing people and loving them? The best I had on that one was just to kill the bad guys, and love the good guys, and hope the two lists never crossed.

but having an entire policy of 'Us Good, Them Bad' does little more than create a magnet for trouble-makers.

Words divide, pictures unite.

By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a point where further division has no meaning.

Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys.

The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check".

I am amused to see from my window here how busily a man has divided and staked off his domain. God must smile at his puny fences running hither and thither everywhere over the land.

One quick way to destroy a society is through its music.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded.

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.