Quotes about Division
When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Find some disgruntled member, whisper a lie in his ear and he will wreak havoc in your church.
— Neil Anderson
The issues we address do not pit the Wesleyan against the Calvinist or the evangelical against the charismatic. This is not to say that these are not important issues, because they are and will remain so until the Lord comes back. But they are not issues that we are going to allow Satan to use as a point of division.
— Neil Anderson
The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair is not a caste.
— Victor Hugo
Factions are blind men who aim correctly.
— Victor Hugo
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I'm going to fight to bring us all together, we're a divided nation. Very divided nation right now. We're going to be unified nation, a nation of love.
— Donald Trump
Presumably no one would argue that the conservative view on the sum of 14 and 27 differs from the liberal view
— Carl Sagan
Both jaws, like enormous shears, bit the craft completely in twain.
— Herman Melville
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.
— John Maxwell
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.
— Miroslav Volf
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.
— Shane Claiborne