Quotes about Division

Presumably no one would argue that the conservative view on the sum of 14 and 27 differs from the liberal view

Both jaws, like enormous shears, bit the craft completely in twain.

Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called 'the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.' These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people's lives.

Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in the middle of living rooms and between people who share a lot, who have a lot in common.

In our cultural value system, we have divided up human traits between the sexes and consequently have denied each sex a part of its humanity.

We waste our energy fighting one another, instead of presenting a common front to the world.

We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving these tensions or mediating these conflicts, our politics fans them, exploits them,and drives us further apart.

From hence, let fierce contending nations knowWhat dire effects from civil discord flow.

Even if I was a Republican, George Bush would have pushed me out of that party.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

The media knows what sells—conflict and division. It's also quick and easy. All too often anger works better than answers; resentment better than reason; emotion trumps evidence. A sanctimonious, sneering one-liner, no matter how bogus, is seen as straight talk, while a calm, well-argued response is seen as canned and phony.