Divides Quotes - Page 24

• Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others.

  Ronald Reagan

  Giving Up, Freedom, Liberty

  Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Communication, Language, Revolutionary

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.148, University of Chicago Press

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• [T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views.

  James Madison

  Growing Up, Fall, Views

  The Federalist no. 10 (1788)

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• The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

  Grace Paley

  Careers, Normal, Professional Life

  Grace Paley, Gerhard Bach, Blaine H. Hall (1997). “Conversations with Grace Paley”, p.228, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Hate, Motto, Nations

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2014). “The Federalist Papers”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Divide by cucumber error. Please reinstall universe and reboot.

  Terry Pratchett

  Errors, Cucumbers, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.218, Random House

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• A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Heart, People, President

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• The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sex, Women, Mean

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

  Arnold Bennett

  Time, Way, Needs

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• The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

  Tony Blair

  Lying, Violent Acts, Purpose

  Tony Blair's Speech opening the Commons debate on Iraq, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.

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• He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

  Plato

  Plato, Math, Understanding

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• We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

  Niels Bohr

  Crazy, Feelings, Statistics

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school, reading his newspaper, and cheering for the politician of his admiration, but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays — yes, above all, he pays.

  William Graham Sumner

  Life, Family, Prayer

  "The Forgotten Man and Other Essays".

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• Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of perfume, divides them, they have charming names, the softest in the language; and each of them, like tiny, art-less ex-votos, or like medals bestowed by the gratitude of men, proudly bears three or four.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Gratitude, Art, Wall

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1905). “Old Fashioned Flowers: And Other Out-of-door Studies”

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• Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

  Pierre Berton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

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• When you make sex to a person, woman or man, you think it unites you. For a moment it gives you the illusion of unity, and then a vast division suddenly comes in. That's why after every sex act, a frustration, a depression sets in. One feels that one is so far away from the beloved. Sex divides, and when love goes deeper and deeper and unites more and more, there is no need for sex. Your inner energies can meet without sex, and you live in such a unity.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Men, Thinking

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• I've called on Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act to help end discrimination to help end discrimination against same-sex couples in this country. Now, I want to add we have a duty to uphold existing law, but I believe we must do so in a way that does not exacerbate old divides. And fulfilling this duty in upholding the law in no way lessens my commitment to reversing this law. I've made that clear.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Sex, Couple

  "Sweet Speech, Mr. President - But Where Was the Apology? And Where’s the Action?" By Karen Ocamb, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2009.

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• What I know is like the leaves on that tree; what I teach is only a small part. But I offer it to all with an open hand. What do I not teach? Whatever is fascinating to discuss, divides people against each other, but has no bearing on putting an end to sorrow. What do I teach? Only what is necessary to take you to the other shore.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Hands, People

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• One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.

  Henri Nouwen

  Hurt, Unity, Tasks

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• And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.

  Tony Blair

  Hate, Ideas, Humanity

  Address to Congress Accepting Congressional Gold Medal, delivered 17 July 2003, Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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• Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service. Their interests are mutual. They ought to be able to act together as one. But they divide according to craft and calling, and if you were to propose today to unite them that they might actually do something to advance their collective and individual interests as workers, you would be opposed by every grand officer of these organizations.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Organization, Together, Different

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• People hesitate to follow their desires because they don't know how to divide their soul from their spirit.

  Rihanna

  People, Soul, Desire

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• The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.

  Nelson Mandela

  Healing, Bridges, Moments

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 23, 2016

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• A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Sky, Wake Up

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.14, Penguin

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• How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright day-world and a dark night-world peopled with fabulous monsters, unless he had the prototype of such a division in himself, in the polarity between the conscious and the invisible and unknowable unconscious?

  Carl Jung

  Summer, Dark, Winter

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.101, Princeton University Press

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