Quotes About Separation

Unilateral divorce has decreased the bargaining power of the person who wants the marriage to last and has not engaged in behavior that meets the legal definition of fault. On the other hand, it has increased the bargaining power of the person who is willing to leave.

Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.

We need to underline the need for Britain to depart from the European Union in an orderly fashion.

Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.

Politics separate men by bringing them together only superficially. Art and culture unite us in a common anguish that is our only possible fraternity, that of our existential and metaphysical community.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity.

I happen to belong to that group opinion which holds the break-up of the United Kingdom to be imminent.

What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.

The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.

My son lives in Nicaragua. My daughters live in the United States.

I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed.

The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

More and more, my life is going in a direction that is not universal; there's only a very small group of people who understand.

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'

Recording and touring are totally separate universes for me and it's strange and refreshing when they invade each other momentarily.

The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.