Quotes About Division

The police become necessary in human society Only at that junction in human society Where it is split between those who have and those who ain't got

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

Two people can form a community by excluding a third.

Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

One of the most original and most important ideas advanced by Hayek is the role of the 'division of knowledge' in economic society.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

Religion keeps society divided. Spirituality unites it.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

Racism is the most divisive force in our society, so until it is dealt with we cannot hope for much.

There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the have-nots.

What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind.

It is because the doctrine of human unity based on the spiritual oneness of all beings, is not propagated in the right manner that we have today many divisions leading to many conflicts.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

On a number of issues, a bipartisan majority of the [economics] profession would unite on the opposite side from a bipartisan majority of Congress. —Arthur Okun (1970)

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means