Division Quotes - Page 4

• You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

  John Buchan

  Life, Wall, Thinking

  1916 The Power-House, ch.3,'Tells of a Midsummer Night'.

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• I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

  Alexander Pope

  Party, Unhappy, Politics

  Letter to Edward Blount, 27 August 1714, in George Sherburn (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Alexander Pope' (1956) vol. 1, p. 247

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• Today we face many problems. Some are created essentially by ourselves based on divisions due to ideology, religion, race, economic status, or other factors. Therefore, the time has come for us to think on a deeper level, on the human level, and from that level we should appreciate and respect the sameness of others as human beings.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Race, Appreciate

  "The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness". Book edited by Sidney Piburn. "Kindness and Compassion" p. 47, 1990.

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• Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

  Henri Bergson

  Life, Philosophical, Doe

  Henri Bergson (2002). “Henri Bergson: Key Writings”, p.197, A&C Black

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• Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Division Of Labor

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

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• I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other's enemies. The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category.

  Benjamin Carson

  Flames, People, Understanding

  "Ben Carson calls for unity as Charleston community recovers from tragedy". "The Kelly File" with Megyn Kelly, www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2015.

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• There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution.

  John Adams

  Party, Humble, Government

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.511

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• Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands,
  But more when envy breeds unkind division:
  There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Hands, Envy

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, William Richardson (1807). “King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3”, p.84

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• I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Footballer

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

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• I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.

  Max Beckmann

  Thinking, Space, Legs

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• At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country.

  Stephen Rea

  Country, People, Way

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• Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Sex, Class, People

  Evelyn Waugh (1968). “A Handful of Dust: Decline and Fall”

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• The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Lying, Differences, Religion

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• But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Strong, Cities, House

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

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• Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.

  Ron Fournier

  Humanity, President, Climate

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• Poems give us permission to be unsure, in ways we must be if we are ever to learn anything not already known. If you look with open eyes at your actual life, it's always going to be the kind of long division problem that doesn't work out perfectly evenly. Poems let you accept the multiplicity and complexity of the actual, they let us navigate the unnavigable, insoluble parts of our individual fates and shared existence.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Eye, Fate, Long

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Errors, Suspense, Fancy

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.373, Stanford University Press

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• Be deaf unto the suggestions of tale-bearers, calumniators, pick-thank or malevolent detractors, who, while quiet men sleep, sowing the tares of discord and division, distract the tranquillity of charity and all friendly society. These are the tongues that set the world on fire--cankerers of reputation, and, like that of Jonah's gourd, wither a good name in a single night.

  Thomas Browne

  Sleep, Night, Men

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• The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it's between freedom and totalitarianism.

  Frank Underhill

  Real, World, Today

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• What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black.

  Robert Kennedy

  Country, Compassion, White

  Robert F. Kennedy (2004). “The Gospel According to RFK: Why it Matters Now”

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• We allow folks to divide us. I don't like this Republican/Democrat, left/right, radical/not radical division that is created by folks, particularly and unfortunately in the media. What happened to being a self-reliant, God-fearing American, that loved freedom and the constitution? That's the way I want to be labeled.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Self, Media

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• France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity.

  Francois Hollande

  Fall, Responsibility, Europe

  "Hollande fires warning shot at Merkel over austerity on eve of EU summit" by Angelique Chrisafis and Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2012.

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• I was very close to playing at an Ivy League School. The Division I schools, when a coach would come visit all he would talk about was my size.

  Doug Flutie

  School, Ivy, League

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• Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

  Aristotle

  Soul, Common, Irrational

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

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• I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.

  Sun Ra

  Discipline, Tradition, Coordination

  "Space is still the place" by W. Kim Heron, www.metrotimes.com. June 6, 2007.

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