Quotes About Disunity

fragmentation,

Clearly, there are persistent differences in our country.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Milo's mustache was unfortunate because the separated halves never matched.

For nothing can be sole or whole. That has not been rent.

Back in the 1930s, the anthropologist Gregory Bateson coined the term 'schismogenesis' to describe people's tendency to define themselves against one another.37

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

when a people or family so divide, it never fails to be against themselves

Scholars throughout history have faced this dilemma: Do they serve power or truth? Should they aim to unite people by making sure everyone believes in the same story, or should they let people know the truth even at the price of disunity? The most powerful scholarly establishments--whether of Christian priests, Confucian mandarins, or Communist ideologues--placed unity above truth. That's why they were so powerful.

En estas circunstancias, la democracia era más bien un mecanismo para formalizar las divisiones entre grupos irreconciliables.

Democrats hate Democrats most of all.

America the Innocent, always searching for the totems of a unity that it can never quite achieve--even, or especially, when its crises of disunity are most pressing. It is one of the structuring stories of our nation. The "return to normalcy" enjoined by Warren Harding after the Great War; the cult of suburban home and hearth after World War II; the union of hearts declaimed by Adams on Boston's Bunker Hill parade ground after the War Between the States.

You're two of a kind, and a bad kind.

Our country is full of hatred and bitterness and talk."34

To sow discord and division.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.

Alas!  for the Kingdom wherein all these are at war.

nothing proclaims disunity like shrill proclamations of unity on every corner.

Every man's sword was against his fellow.

Saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

Mardonius was in the best of humors. Like the Great King at Salamis, he misinterpreted what he saw as disunity, low morale, and incompetence, and ordered an immediate general advance across the Asopus.

I don't think many people would disagree that the world is fractured.