Quotes About Division

Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

El nacionalismo es una enfermedad infantil. Es el sarampion de la humanidad.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

The cell doesn't grow old. It becomes immortal. Keeps dividing. Doesn't Die. So where we see the aging process as natural, it's actually a fault in our genes.

Hate is very easy to unleash, the Duke continued. All you need is the Other. And then people will take over from you and do all the hating that needs to be done, all the belittling, all the insulting and bullying.

How can you have a peaceful country where one half of the population thinks that the other is wrong, or hostile, or determined to do them down? What better recipe for unhappiness was there than that?

Auden returns to one of his most important themes—that of repairing the tragic division in our lives, of making us whole again: While, as they lie in the grass of our neglect, So many long-forgotten objects Revealed by his undisclosed shining Are returned to us and made precious again; Games we thought we must drop as we grew up, Little noises we dared not laugh at, Faces we made when no one was looking. But he wishes us more than this.

And now," said the Duke, "there's something very unpleasant on the loose. We may pretend that it isn't; we may deny it, but we know that there are more and more people who hate those whom they used not to hate. And there are even some who encourage this hate, who harbour that hate within themselves and are happy to see it flourish in the breasts of others.

Hate was a welcoming host and would always encourage you to join its parties.

There was always injustice in any border, in anything. You drew a line and there was always somebody just on the other side; on one side of an arbitrary line there could be happiness and prosperity, on the other misery. But he did not say this.

His particular insight was that we need to be at home; all his concerns with division within ourselves, with the tragic flaws in our nature, with the thwarting of love—all these point to the need that he felt we had within us to locate ourselves in a place we could live in with love, with people with whom we could share.

Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.

In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.

the very judicious plan of dividing the two acts of the opera with a ballet

Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86,400 seconds many things can be done.

Ideology is a form of cognition. Ideology can of course refer to doctrine, as in the Communist Manifesto, or to practice, as in the division of labor between husbands and wives. Here, however,

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.

The man in our society is the breadwinner the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

remove the cold war and internal conflicts multiply in countries by the week.

Nor was this lessened by the knowledge that it was only a wall. There was nothing rational about a wall, whether it encircled Berlin, San Quentin or the ghettos of Warsaw. A wall was a symbol, fortified as much by the idea behind it as by bricks and guns.

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.