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Quotes About Division

nothing proclaims disunity like shrill proclamations of unity on every corner.
~ Joe Abercrombie
you are on the wrong side as soon as you pick one.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Her father gave a sad smile at that. "Believe it or not, we all want what's best. The root o' the world's ills is that no one can agree on what it is.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Folks, winning means uniting America, not sowing seeds of division and anger and hate. We got to beat Donald Trump, and we will, but we can't become like him.
~ Joe Biden
We all know--or at least we are told continually--that we are a divided people. And we know there's a degree of truth in it. We have too often allowed our differences to prevail among us. We have too often allowed ambitious men to play off those differences for political gain. We have too often retreated behind our differences when no one really tried to lead us beyond them. But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common.
~ Joe Biden
Certainty is the sum of need and faith. Wisdom is the remainder of living. Knowledge is the division of doubt by facts. Truth is the product of them all.
~ Joel Goldman
There's a force that is fracturing all of us.
~ Johann Hari
Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Divide and rule, the politician cries; Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
~ Grace Paley
In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
~ Bao Dai
Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.
~ Fanny Kemble
It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say "we" with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke "others" and regard himself as their interpreter - for me to consider him my enemy.
~ E. M. Cioran
Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
For if the will can overlap class, civilization as we have made it will go to pieces.
~ E.M. Forster
Nowadays people can be divided into three classes - the haves the have-nots and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.
~ Earl Wilson
What is a communist? One who hath yearningsFor equal division of unequal earnings.
~ Ebenezer Elliott
It's like making a milkshake without the lid on,' wrote a Turkish twitter user, trying to describe the impossibility of having a proper political discussion with ErdoÄŸan supporters.
~ Ece Temelkuran
Outrage has no time for dialogue, and it won't be distracted by nuance or even truth.
~ Ed Stetzer
As white America chose itself over a truly just and multiracial society,
~ Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Trump did not stop the "American carnage." He unleashed it.
~ Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
~ Edmund Burke
If race disappears as a category of official division, as it has in most of the world, this will facilitate the emergence of a plural racial order where the groups exist in practice but are not official recognized - and anyone trying to address racial division is likely to be chided for racializing the population.
~ Eduardo Bonilla-Silva