Quotes about Division
What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural.
— Joseph Heller
On the contrary, he would come home and rail at both parties with great wrath—and plainly proved one day to the satisfaction of my wife, and three old ladies who were drinking tea with her, that the two parties were like two rogues, each tugging at the skirt of the nation; and that in the end they would tear the very coat off its back, and expose its nakedness.
— Washington Irving
The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of hope and healing to those who have been marginalized.
— James Bryan Smith
Mark 3:25: "And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
— James MacDonald
Nations fight against nations, in marriages people fight against each other, children fight against each other. We are in warfare, in a national warfare, and in warfare with each other and with ourselves.
— Charles Stanley
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
— Victor Hugo
The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.
— Thomas Merton
The bounden duty of a true believer towards men who profess to be Christians, and yet deny the Word of the Lord, and reject the fundamentals of the Gospel, is to come out from among them
— Charles Spurgeon
Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.
— Malcolm X
To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.
— Dorothy Sayers
The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.
— St. John Chrysostom
Each one of us is called to be an artisan of peace, by uniting and not dividing, by extinguishing hatred and not holding on to it, by opening paths to dialogue and not by constructing new walls!
— Pope Francis