Quotes About Division

Americans' "fatal tendency of disunion.

It is so easy for outsiders to say that there are two sides to the question. What a terrible expression! I am beginning to detest

The two-tiered spirituality created an artificial separation between the clergy and the laity—and thus between the Church and the world.

Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.

In the end, by all the Devils, yes! Partisan hatred's still the best,

Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust, Die eine will sich von der andern trennen;

Ruhumu, ortas?ndan ikiye ay?ran bir duvar var.

Work groups and organization come into being because there is a task to be done that is too big for one person

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Satan.

I meant "tribalism" in the widest sense of the word, as applied to race, religion, nationalism, or politics. George Orwell defined it as that "habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled 'good' or 'bad.

You can go to thousand schools, and it's always the same. Because the standard rule of thumb is: There's the girls over here, and there's the boys over there. Separated. Which direction [do I go]?

Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.

As soon as there was two there was pride

all right we are two nations

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

So over violent, or over civil,That every man with him was God or Devil.

We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred.

Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.