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Quotes About Division

Cancer is caused by mutations. Mutations that pile up until runaway cell division occurs. We have random DNA damage happening in our bodies all the time.
~ PO BRONSON
Certainly, the contradiction of tensions and divisions between the followers of different religious traditions, sadly, cannot be denied. However, is it not also the case that often it is the ideological manipulation of religion, sometimes for political ends, that is the real catalyst for tension and division, and at times even violence in society?
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Racism is not the exclusive attribute of young nations where sometimes it hides beneath the rivalries of clans and political parties, with heavy losses for justice and at the risk of civil wars. It is still an obstacle to collaboration and a cause of division and hatred within countries whenever individuals and families see the inviolable rights of the human person held in scorn as they themselves are unjustly subjected to a regime of discrimination because of their race or their color.
~ Pope Paul VI
No matter what one's side in any strife, some allies would make better enemies.
~ Poul Anderson
Biasa: harta dengan kejamnya telah memisahkan ibu dari anak.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
We should know that the degradation of a nation always comes from division, which results in the loss of the country's reputation.
~ President Pierre Nkurunziza
The woman was plodding laboriously forward, bent beneath the weight of an enormous sack of chestnuts, while her husband sauntered along with only a rifle in his hand, and another slung over his shoulder; for it is unbecoming for a man to carry any burden but his weapons.
~ Prosper Mérimée
Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
~ Proverb
Though divorce be hard, two never met but had to part.
~ Proverb
But today the united city has ceased to exist; there is no more communion of ideas. The town is a chance agglomeration of people who do not know one another, who have no common interest, save that of enriching themselves at the expense of one another.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
Political economy has always confined itself to stating facts occurring in society, and justifying them in the interest of the dominant class. Therefore, it pronounces itself in favour of the division of labour in industry. Having found it profitable to capitalists, it has set it up as a principle.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
What fatherland can the international banker and rag-picker have in common?
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
Society is thus bound to remain divided into two hostile camps, and in such conditions freedom is a vain word.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
It is often hard for an irreligious age to recognize that religion has in fact been capable of dividing men as effectually as political doctrine or economic status, but unless the fact is recognized the history of the Middle Ages will remain a meaningless labyrinth
~ R.H.C. Davis
He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us.
~ Rabih Alameddine
Nation is the greatest evil for the Nation
~ Rabindranath Tagore
And the idea of the Nation is one of the most powerful anæsthetics that man has invented.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
So America's president now says most Jewish American voters are either ignorant or disloyal. It's such a dreadful thing to say, so heavy with historical hatred and violence, that it's utterly unsurprising in U.S. President Donald Trump's mouth. And his supporters nod and say he's right.
~ Neil Macdonald
Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.
~ Ahmed Chalabi
I know the divisions in our nation that led some to extreme votes. I respect them.
~ Emmanuel Macron
The Ram Mandir should be built, but it should not be used as an election plank to divide the society and win votes.
~ Raj Thackeray
Disunity costs votes.
~ John Major
To prevent division of Hindu votes, Balasaheb decided that Shiv Sena will take care of Maharashtra and BJP can take care of whole country. But things have changed now.
~ Uddhav Thackeray
Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration.
~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter