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Quotes About Division

It was a world of half-light in which they lived and to which they brought the better parts of themselves--so that, after a while, the outer world where people walked and spoke, where there was change and continual movement, seemed to them false and unreal. Their lives were sharply divided between the two worlds, and it seemed to them natural that they should live so divided.
~ John Williams
We also, while loyal to truth, should try to avoid all that may lead to discord and misapprehension. For whenever these arise, they result in the loss of souls. Whenever circumstances occur that threaten to cause division, we should follow the example of Jesus and of John the Baptist. John
~ Ellen G. White
Sometimes I wonder if we're livin' in the same land. Why do you wanna be my friend when I feel like a juggler running out of hands?
~ Elvis Costello
Injustice constitutes the essence of social life.
~ Emil Cioran
Due nemici sono lo stesso uomo dimezzato.
~ Emil Cioran
Deux ennemis, c'est un même homme divisé.
~ Emil Cioran
Two enemies—the same man divided.
~ Emil M. Cioran
A community founded upon argument would soon be a community no longer. It would dissolve into its constituent elements.
~ balfour arthur james ii
All that has to do with matters of material existence I leave to my wife.
~ balzac honore de xxiv
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
~ Barack Obama
We have just enough religion to make us hate one another," Jonathan Swift once observed, "but not enough to make us love one another.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
When the party system regulates, argument addresses the deaf.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
~ Barney Frank
Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin'
~ Barry McGuire
Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
In recent years it's become really apparent, the division between what government is and what communities want.
~ Ashley Zukerman
Thinking of ourselves as members of 'this group' or 'that group,' I think that's a recipe for division.
~ Wendy Long
A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.
~ Richard M. Nixon
Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
~ Arlie Russell Hochschild
Honestly bro, it was one of them situations where I kind of hated the Redskins, you feel me? Like, that was my rivals. Being an Eagle, that was like my rivals.
~ DeSean Jackson
People have become desperate to reduce everything, including each other, to mindless categories of good and bad, as if the world can be divided into Facebook likes and dislikes.
~ Victoria Coren Mitchell
The E.U. Referendum clearly divided us, and little has been done by those that lead us to bring us back together.
~ Anna Soubry
Although economic grievances were critical in delivering the referendum result, Brexit has fomented an all-out culture war.
~ Owen Jones
The Brexit referendum showed us to be divided, and those of us who campaigned for remain have to accept that we lost. But that does not mean that we have to agree to the deal the prime minister has brought back - a deal that satisfies no one.
~ Hilary Benn