Quotes About Division

dear old friends, dear old lovers, do you realize that when you voted for Trump, you voted against me—against the memory of the person I used to be in your lives?

I used to think the world was broken down by tribes," I said. "By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not.

I wasn't there when the old Indian man from Worley said it, but I know it must be true: Every highway in the world crosses some reservation, cuts it in half.

Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.

The world is split into two halves: the bacon, and the bacon eaters.

There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that's here.

People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.

What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.

From this perspective, the earth would no longer be simply a marketplace, its lands and resources divided among competing human groups.

We're heading into nut country today.

Will you at last take your red-conservative and blue-progressive-colored glasses off your blinkered consciousness and SEE who really is destroying your country and your constitutional freedoms? It ain't ISIS or al-Qaeda.

In theory, say you did have thousands of people—no, thousands of systems—enraged at a hypothetical Galactic Empire in a faraway galaxy. But they're all upset over local matters, over particular grievances, and they never get together on anything. So they get no strength in numbers, no strategic advantages from cooperation. They're easy to divide and conquer. And worst of all, no common spirit ever develops.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

At a Trump rally, many people were driven to anger and blame; there was name-calling and finger-pointing; there was a certain "my way or the highway" tone. At a Kasich event, people were given hope and all kinds of reasons to lift each other up instead of holding each other down; there was a "we're all in this soup together" tone.

Stalin fell into the trap the Marshall Plan laid for him, which was to get him to build the wall that would divide Europe.

Dumpty the Bigot.

In 2019, Fox News' Greg Gutfeld explained to me what he called "the prison of two ideas." He told me that no one can seriously talk to or even be perceived as working with people on the "other side" of the debate, or they will be disowned by their own side. This applies not only to the media but also to politics generally. This surely explains much of the lack of civil, productive debate on guns.

But we're at a place in our political history when passing legislation through the House with bipartisan support is considered by some folks a greater evil than the problem it's intended to solve.

The black man in America as well as the black man abroad has never been able to provide good leadership for himself under Christianity, because Christianity is not the true religion of God. It is a division of religions and uses a division of God

Summer #28: 2020 What are we talking about in 2020? Kobe Bryant, Covid-19, social distancing, Zoom, TikTok, Navarro cheerleading, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, and… The presidential election. A country divided. Opinions on both sides. It's everywhere: on the news, on the late-night shows, in the papers, online, online, online

Andrea ripped her paperback in half and gave Delilah the beginning while she finished the end.

Perché si chiamava civile una guerra in cui due fratelli potevano trovarsi uno contro l'altro? Non si sarebbe dovuto chiamarla, anzi, incivile?

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We had physical constraints that helped us to focus our attention, to zoom in on the real policy constraint. That isn't the case in the division. Over there we have excess capacity going through our ears. We have excess engineering resources that we succeed so brilliantly in wasting. I'm sure that there is no lack of markets. We simply don't know how to put our act together to capitalize on what we have.