Quotes About Division

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

For one to be free there must be at least two. Freedom signifies a social relation, an asymmetry of social conditions: essentially it implies social difference--it presumes and implies the presence of social division. Some can be free only in so far as there is a form of dependence they can aspire to escape.

As rendered by Rolland Munro, the concept of 'melancholy' in its current use 'represents not so much a state of indecision, a wavering between the choice of going one way or another, so much as it represents a backing off from the very divisions'; it stands for a 'disentanglement' from 'being attached to anything specific'. To be 'melancholic' is 'to sense the infinity of connection, but be hooked up to nothing'.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

A house divided cannot stand.

He whose wisdom surpasses that of all philosophers, has declared that 'a house divided against itself cannot stand

The logic of nationalism always flows downhill, toward the gutter.

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.

todas las demás artes y manufacturas las consecuencias de la división del trabajo son semejantes a las que se dan en esta industria tan sencilla, aunque en muchas de ellas el trabajo no puede ser así subdividido, ni reducido a operaciones tan sencillas. De todas formas, la división del trabajo ocasiona en cada actividad, en la medida en que pueda ser introducida, un incremento proporcional en la capacidad productiva del trabajo.

Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do not labour at all, many of whom consume the produce

En toda sociedad avanzada el agricultor es sólo agricultor y el industrial sólo industrial.

gran multiplicación de la producción de todos los diversos oficios, derivada de la división del trabajo, da lugar, en una sociedad bien gobernada, a esa riqueza universal que se extiende hasta las clases más bajas del pueblo.

must necessarily be small; and those employed in every different branch of the work can often be collected into the same workhouse, and placed at once under the view of the spectator. In those great manufactures, on the contrary, which are destined to supply the great wants of the great body of the people, every different branch of the work employs so great a number of workmen that it is impossible to collect them all into the same workhouse

what is the work of one man, in a rude state of society, being generally that of several in an improved one.

THE WEALTH OF NATIONS is one of the most important and influential books ever written. It

Each individual becomes more expert in his own peculiar branch, more work is done upon the whole, and the quantity of science is considerably increased by it.

In every improved society, the farmer is generally nothing but a farmer; the manufacturer, nothing but a manufacturer. The labour, too, which is necessary to produce any one complete manufacture is almost always divided among a great number of hands. How many different trades are employed in each branch of the linen and woollen manufactures from the growers of the flax and the wool, to the bleachers and smoothers of the linen, or to the dyers and dressers of the cloth!