Quotes About Division

Intergroup animosity need not be about anything,

Power works by division, influence by multiplication. Power, in other words, is a zero-sum game: the more you share, the less you have. Influence is a non-zero-sum game: the more you share, the more you have.

We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine.

At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife's hatred they are borne each of them apart.

El fútbol es el bacilo de la guerra civil

El país, que nació con un atraso de siglos para construir un régimen de libertades cívicas y bienestar económico, perdería décadas preciosas en una discordia civil que a la postre lo conduciría a la bancarrota, el descrédito, la violencia interna, la guerra exterior y el desmembramiento del territorio.

Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence - still breaks down along geographical lines.

Weimar Germany conjures up fears of what can happen when there is simply no societal consensus on how to move forward and every minor difference becomes a cause of existential political battles,

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

All I've got against it is that it takes you so far from the clubhouse.

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

England had decidedly turned its back on any expressions of what we might call serious Christian belief. Having led to so much division and violence, religion was now in full-scale retreat. The churches of mid-eighteenth-century England all but abandoned orthodox, historical Christianity and now preached a tepid kind of moralism that seemed to present civility and the preservation of the status quo as the summum bonnum.

Since the time of the Puritans and the religious wars of the previous century, England had decidedly turned its back on any expressions of what we might call serious Christian belief. Having led to so much division and violence, religion was now in full-scale retreat.

Now he understood clearly that roads do divide, at the crossroad there is a choice, and blinding oneself to it is a form of choosing, too; it is the fool's way, the coward's way.

Modifying Clausewitz' aphorism—war is the continuation of diplomacy by other means—one could say that in ideologically divided countries civil war is but the continuation of parliamentarism with other means.

Forgiveness is far more powerful than hatred and suspicion. United, we are as strong as we ever were. Divided, we will fall.

ShadowClan is turning into a bunch of fox-hearts." Bluefur

broke up into small groups.

Divide 10 by 1/2 and add ten. What is the answer?

There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.