Quotes About Divide

The East-West divide of the Cascade Curtain has long been Washington's homegrown version of the red state–blue state divide that is the current darling of the national punditry. The East looks to the West, and sees arrogant urban liberals; the West thinks of its neighbours to the East as dim-witted rural conservatives. From time to time, a handful of legislators and citizens seriously propose splitting the state in two" (de Place).

would in my will, leave my skin a legacy to the government, desiring that it might be taken off and made into parchment and then bind the Constitution of glorious happy and free America."17 Americans' deepest and most abiding divide turned on this starkly different reading of their Constitution, in what meaning lay between the ink written onto parchment and the scars etched on a black man's back.

William thought of that sacrament now and felt bad for all the children who were forced to divide their ordinary lives into sins and not-sins so they would have something to say to a cassocked stranger.

The weirdest manifestation of the new exclusivity was the cult of 'Sarmatism', based on the lunatic notion that the Polish nobility were descended from a mythic eastern warrior-tribe called the Sarmatians, justifying an imaginary racial divide with the rest of the population. In line with their newly-invented Sarmatian credentials, the szlachta developed a bizarre taste for the bejewelled and exotic.

The profound lack of economic opportunity for those left behind by globalization has created an ever-widening gap between the 'haves' and the 'have nots.'

The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.

Whites have not had to build the cognitive or affective skills or develop the stamina that would allow for constructive engagement across racial divides.

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

I knew my life would forever be divided into Before and After. I didn't

My time I divide as follows: the one half I sleep; the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep; that would be a shame, because to sleep is the height of genius.

Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you.

Perhaps the most telling criticism of suburban migration focused on an expanding racial divide between the heavily white suburbs and the increasingly black inner cities. Clearly, some new suburbanites, and the developers catering to them, shared a deep-seated racism: In 1970, nearly 95 percent of suburbanites were white.

Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed.

There are problems and there are children. It is our aim to separate the two.

I was motivated to go into public life because of the great chasm that exists between justice and injustice in our country. Nowhere is that divide greater than in America's cities.

I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really class ridden, literature.

I remember trying to explain the class system to a Canadian friend when we started at RADA. The funniest thing was when I told her what bonfire night is all about. It's quite dark when you start breaking it down.

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

If Quebeckers want Jean Charest, well, they can choose him. It's never a winning formula to divide Quebeckers.

I hated what Margaret Thatcher had done. How she'd taken jobs. I hated her divide and rule politics.

One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

To ABSCIND  (ABSCI'ND)   v.a.To cut off, either in a natural or figurative sense.

It is a dull and obtuse mind, that must divide in order to distinguish; but it is a still worse that distinguishes in order to divide.