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Quotes About Division

El mundo es el infierno, y los hombres se dividen en almas atormentadas y diablos atormentadores.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination. An inability to see the world in terms other than those that the establishment has set out for you: If you're not a Bushie you're a Taliban. If you don't love us, you hate us. If you're not Good you're Evil. If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists.
~ Arundhati Roy
The division in opinion on the use of the term (i.e - fascism) comes down to whether you believe that fascism became fascism only after a continent was destroyed and millions of people were exterminated in gas chambers, or whether you believe that fascism is an ideology that led to those high crimes - that can lead to those crimes - and that those who subscribe to it are fascists.
~ Arundhati Roy
It's a battle of those who know how to think against those who know how to hate.
~ Arundhati Roy
in Delhi there was no war other than the usual one – the war of the rich against the poor.
~ Arundhati Roy
What better way is there to police the streets of a minority community than to turn one generation against the other?
~ Audre Lorde
It is based upon the false notion that there is only a limited and particular amount of freedom that must be divided up between us, with the largest and juiciest pieces of liberty going as spoils to the victor or the stronger. So instead of joining together to fight for more, we quarrel between ourselves for a larger slice of the one pie.
~ Audre Lorde
This kind of action is a prevalent error among oppressed peoples. It is based upon the false notion that there is only a limited and particular amount of freedom that must be divided up between us, with the largest and juiciest pieces of liberty hging as spoils to the victor or the stronger. So instead of joining together to fight for more, we quarrel between ourselves for a larger slice of the one pie.
~ Audre Lorde
It is based upon the false notion that there is only a limited and particular amount of freedom that must be divided up between us, with the largest and juiciest pieces of liberty going as spoils to the victor or the stronger.
~ Audre Lorde
This kind of action is a prevalent error among oppressed peoples. It is based upon the false notion that there is only a limited and particular amount of freedom that must be divided up between us, with the largest and juiciest pieces of liberty going as spoils to the victor or the stronger.
~ Audre Lorde
For this wire is as a part of our body, as a vein torn from us, glowing with our blood. Are we proud of this thread of metal, or of our hands which made it, or is there a line to divide these two?
~ Ayn Rand
Politics have long been defined as "the systematic organization of hatreds.
~ Stacy Schiff
they realized it would be impossible to comb the whole infested area in this way and they would have to split up. This was most easily done, obviously, by separating...
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Il mondo si divide in: quelli che mangiano il cioccolato senza pane; quelli che non riescono a mangiare il cioccolato se non mangiano anche il pane; quelli che non hanno il cioccolato; quelli che non hanno il pane. (Dai detti celebri di nonno Socrate)
~ Stefano Benni
Como é que uma sociedade, cujas instituições educacionais pregam uma abordagem fragmentada da vida e uma divisão distorcida do mundo, pode produzir um indivíduo saudável e criativo?
~ Stephen Arroyo
I despise the religions we have, nothing but flummery and manipulation based on texts and materials so reworked over time they're all meaningless. I despise the division religions religions bring; humans have enough problems without that. I despise con men like Father Melly. And yet, and yet …
~ Stephen Baxter
The pistachio: it's just like our politics. When the two sides are divided, that's when the nuts come out.
~ Stephen Colbert
How did our politics get so poisonous? … You take a little bit of [the poison] so you can hate the other, and it tastes kinda good, and you like how it feels and there's a gentle high to the condemnation. And you know you're right? Right? You know you're right.
~ Stephen Colbert
Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It's that kind of fight. ... And it goes on to this day. Will we never learn? Who knows? Religion. Shit it.
~ Stephen Fry
We see the unity, and not the divisions. It is such a simple image with a compelling message; one planet, one human race.
~ Stephen Hawking
As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?
~ Stephen King
It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who like dogs - (L.T.'s Theory of Pets)
~ Stephen King
Unhealthy gossiping is one way that divides heaven and hell.
~ Deeksha Mittal
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
~ Jonathan Swift