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Quotes About Division

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~ Adam Smith
gran incremento en la labor que un mismo número de personas puede realizar como consecuencia de la división del trabajo se debe a tres circunstancias diferentes; primero, al aumento en la destreza de todo trabajador individual; segundo, al ahorro del tiempo que normalmente se pierde al pasar de un tipo de tarea a otro; y tercero, a la invención de un gran número de máquinas que facilitan y abrevian la labor, y permiten que un hombre haga el trabajo
~ Adam Smith
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.
~ Adrian Rogers
The distance between the haves and the have-nots is a train ride.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Two families—one side wears tuxedos and holds a gas can, the other wears a frilly gown and holds a match.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Nationalism had now replaced neighborliness.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
~ Aeschylus
My sons, if you are of one mind, and unite to assist each other, you will be as this faggot, uninjured by all the attempts of your enemies; but if you are divided among yourselves, you will be broken as easily as these sticks.
~ Aesop
It is like this in a city-state; the demagogues thrive by throwing the state into discord.
~ Aesop
Prejudice and ethnic strife feed off abstraction.
~ Alain de Botton
if you're part of the Blue Tribe, then your outgroup isn't al-Qaeda, or Muslims, or blacks, or gays, or transpeople, or Jews, or atheists—it's the Red Tribe." The real outgroup, for us, is the person next door.
~ Alan Jacobs
How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?
~ Alan Moore
Up there the world is divided into bastards and suckers. Make your choice.
~ Derek Robinson
I who am poisoned with the blood of both,Where shall I turn, divided to the vein?I who have cursedThe drunken officer of British rule, how chooseBetween this Africa and the English tongue I love?
~ Derek Walcott
All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
~ Desmond Tutu
Brahma splits Brahmanda into three parts: me, mine and what is not mine. This is Tripura, the three worlds.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
The Liberals were in a minority, but were strongly backed by the Irish Nationalists, even though they were themselves divided between pro- and anti-Parnellite factions. Gladstone's last government included three subsequent Liberal prime ministers – Rosebery, Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H.H. Asquith, but his closest associate was John Morley, the Irish Chief Secretary, who was later to write his biography in three extensive volumes.
~ Dick Leonard
The dividing line will run right through the confessing Church. Even if we make the confession of faith, it gives us no title to any special claim upon Jesus. We can never appeal to our confession or be saved simply on the ground that we have made it...The man who says "Lord, Lord" has either called himself to Jesus without the Holy Spirit, or else he has made out of the call of Jesus a personal privilege.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
She always thought Americans were too territorial. 'All those fences and flags,' she had once said, seeing very little difference between the two.
~ Dinaw Mengestu
The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.
~ Dixie Lee Ray
A border is something that divides us but also unites us; there can be no real wall, just as there is no wall that divides the human soul between its best impulses and its worst.
~ Don Winslow
But there's no wall down there, Keller thinks, smiling. And there never will be. A border is something that divides us but also unites us; there can be no real wall, just as there is no wall that divides the human soul between its best impulses and its worst. Keller knows. He's been on both sides of the border. He takes Mari's hand and together they limp back down the hill.
~ Don Winslow
Good fences make good neighbors. - John Dortmunder
~ Donald E. Westlake
It may be that only when xenophobia stops working as an election winner will the way be cleared for a return to bipartisanship
~ Donald Horne