Quotes About Division

Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.

Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.

If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide.

This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.

Er bestaat geen grotere vijandschap op de wereld dan tussen Duitsers en joden.

the oldest trick in the book of a demagogue to blame all your troubles on an identifiable group. Turn people's attention to something they can hate, and they'll leave you alone.

For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none.

We are torn to pieces by parties and animosities. For my part I see no end to them.

passerby would never guess the Garretts even knew each other. They looked so scattered, and so lonesome.

apart," Abby said. "Yes, except he could put it back

A country with two kings will always falter.

When a single nation's armies are ordered against each other, all is lost.

So how do you unify a secure, wealthy country that has sunk into a zero-sum political game with itself?

It's hard to know how to live for a country that regularly tears itself apart along every possible ethnic and demographic boundary.

You can divide the world into two kinds of people: those who ask, and those who answer. Those who pose questions, and those who frown in irritation in response.

People are linked together by enmity than by love.

Whereas an Akbar might have used such technologies to fuse his diverse people together, the British used them to separate, classify and divide.

we have reduced our politics to black and white today: either for or against, nothing in between. Fifty Shades of Grey could never be the title of a book about Indian politics. This view of

in the binary terms made famous by George W. Bush: 'Are you with us or against us?

Back home the election was over; the country had a new president: 'Mr Roosevelt' he was called at first, then 'Roosevelt,' then 'that Roosevelt,' and finally just 'he' or 'him' by mouths that twisted bitterly on the pronoun, for the westering boats were crowded with expatriates—"A traitor to his class," they said.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

When power is organized in the form of an economy based upon private capital and the division of labor, then ipso facto the lives of most persons will be directed by others. Dependence is thus institutionalized as inequalities of reward and, consequently, of power.

What was the value of "values"? To obscure more fundamental issues and to divide society along ideological lines rather than class conflicts: the religiously obedient Catholic worker, the evangelical African American, the church- and family-oriented Hispanic, the struggling white family with a son in the military because he aspired to go to college: all vote for the party trumpeting values that impose virtually no cost on its affluent and corporate beneficiaries and their heirs.33

The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.