Quotes about Division

We waste our energy fighting one another, instead of presenting a common front to the world.

We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving these tensions or mediating these conflicts, our politics fans them, exploits them,and drives us further apart.

From hence, let fierce contending nations knowWhat dire effects from civil discord flow.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

The media knows what sells—conflict and division. It's also quick and easy. All too often anger works better than answers; resentment better than reason; emotion trumps evidence. A sanctimonious, sneering one-liner, no matter how bogus, is seen as straight talk, while a calm, well-argued response is seen as canned and phony.

The media knows what sells—conflict and division. It's also quick and easy. All too often anger works better than answers; resentment better than reason; emotion trumps evidence. A sanctimonious, sneering one-liner, no matter how bogus, is seen as straight talk, while a calm, well-argued response is seen as canned and phony.

What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.

The name of Jesus has been used by some to harm and divide, but if you look at how he lived, you see how backward that really is. Jesus was not exclusive. He was radically inclusive.

The humorless puzzle of inequality and hate.