Quotes about Polarization

Today it's "us versus them" in America. Politics is little more than blood sport. As a result, our willingness to believe the worst about everyone outside our own bubble is growing, and our ability to solve problems and seize opportunities is shrinking.

The Democratic Party is evil.

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. 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.

That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

The polarization that characterizes so much of American life is risky business in a church congregation, but especially so in a monastic community. The person you're quick to label and dismiss as a racist, a homophobe, a queer, an anti-Semite, a misogynist, a bigoted conservative or bleeding-heart liberal is also a person you're committed to live, work, pray, and dine with for the rest of your life.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

Whenever communities, families, nations, churches are divided, we sniff out the diabolic.

Outrage has no time for dialogue, and it won't be distracted by nuance or even truth.

The more polarized the gender roles, the more violent the society. The less polarized the gender roles, the more peaceful the society.

The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.

The world has never been as divided as it is now.