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Quotes About Division

I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn't something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. With your help we will do something.
~ Mitt Romney
Obama has been successfully dividing Americans like no other president in history.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
During the election of Washington's successor, it became apparent that the country was sharply divided and that the dissatisfaction with Federalist policies was deep and fervent.
~ Charles A. Beard
I don't regret how I built the Cruiserweight division. Could I have done better? Sure. Absolutely. I'm sure I could have, especially with 20/20 hindsight. I just don't know of anybody that I talk to that looks back at that division and says, 'Oh, man, that sucked.'
~ Eric Bischoff
People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.
~ Amartya Sen
America will suffer under Trump.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
We suffered a lot by mixing religion with the politics.
~ Uddhav Thackeray
My parents were from Punjab, in Pakistan. We had land there which were reallocated after partition. So I belong to that area which got divided and suffered.
~ Kirron Kher
What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.
~ Alicia Keys
America already suffers from a uniformed and increasingly polarized citizenry. FOX seems to eagerly exploit this dynamic, and in so doing, accentuate it.
~ Daniel Lubetzky
The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that.
~ Gloria Steinem
Jesus comes among us, in our all division, not to instruct, comfort or inspire but to die. In doing so, He answers the sum of our self-regard, stupidity and cruelty.
~ Richard Coles
They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two.
~ Emma Bull
And I defend because in spite of all I find that I love. In order to get some of it down I have to love. I sell you no phony forgiveness, I'm a desperate man – but too much of your life will be lost, its meaning lost, unless you approach it as much through love as through hate. So I approach it through division so I denounce and I defend and I hate and I love.
~ Ralph Ellison
Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because, with the combatants being the same people, civil wars are never really won; and because their most devastating engagements are fought within the individual human heart.
~ Ralph Ellison
with the combatants being the same people, civil wars are never really won; and because their most devastating engagements are fought within the individual human heart.
~ Ralph Ellison
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
~ Ray Bradbury
Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
~ Ray Bradbury
Il sentit son corps se scinder en deux, devenir chaleur et froidure, tendresse et dureté, tremblement et impassibilité, chaque moitié grinçant contre l'autre.
~ Ray Bradbury
I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
~ Ray Branbury
Originea sa cea mai direct? se afla în declaraÈ›ia c? era un rus. Orice aÈ™tepta el de la via?? urma s? i se dea, ori s? i se refuze, doar prin aceast? filiaÈ›ie. Imensa familie suferea acum din cauza disensiunilor interne, iar el se sustr?gea mental din diferend, aÈ™a cum orice om de bun-simÈ› s-ar abÈ›ine de la a lua partea cuiva într-o violent? ceart? de familie.
~ Joseph Conrad
The Emperor proposes to give all commanders of divisions the right to shoot marauders, but I much fear this will oblige one half the army to shoot the other.
~ Joseph Conrad
Cuarto, una sociedad menos dividida, una economía con mayor equidad, funciona mejor. Particularmente nefastas son las desigualdades basadas en la raza, el género y los factores étnicos.
~ Joseph E. Stiglitz