Best 293 quotes in «division quotes» category

My God, I wish we had [the] 9th Australian Division with us this morning.

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

Nirvana is something that cannot be known here. I know it seems incongruous, but it is only incongruous from the perspective of the dialectical consciousness of division, of time and space

Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.

Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.

Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays.

Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging hatred to set your kind upon one another. And then before you know it, you have a whole nation biting on its own tail, going round and round until there is nothing left but the snapping of teeth.

Now it's time for America to bind the wounds of division.

Oliver [McCall] has meant so much to my career and showed that in the heavyweight division, anything is possible.

Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual and society. The contradiction between individual principle and social principle disappears.

One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance.

...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division'.

Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor.

Not too worried about fighting for titles, but just fighting the best competition at the Welterweight division. I'll be happy with that.

Orderly discipline and morale within an army was the responsibility of the Division Commander.

Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid

Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.

Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.

Scripture would not only solve the individual and family divisions, but it would also solve the ecclesiastical confusion.

Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I notice that I tend to listen in a diatonic sense, that I register a pitch as a member of a diatonic scale, even in a non-tonal context.

So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.

Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.

That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!

The colonial power tended to be France or Britain, and the Soviets were proclaimed as anti-imperialists. So, if you align yourself with the Soviets, it fits nicely with that kind of rhetorical division, but in reality it does not get you anywhere.

The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one.

The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.

The more we preach hatred, division and putting up a wall, the less we progress.

The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.

Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.

The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour.

The Cold War began with the division of Europe. It can only end when Europe is whole.

The division [between how much housework men and women do] is declining across all advanced economies - not for the reasons that people want, which is men are doing more, but because women are doing less of it, but even then, the trend is getting towards equality.

The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

The division of the psychical into what is conscious and what is unconscious is the fundamental premise of psycho-analysis; and it alone makes it possible for psycho-analysis to understand the pathological processes in mental life, which are as common as they are important, and to find a place for them in the framework of science.

The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and for that law which secures to every one his property. For the first persons who have employed themselves in cultivation, have probably worked as much land as their strength would permit, and, consequently, more than was necessary for their own nourishment.

The middleweight division is one of the most exciting divisions in the sport. Fighters can punch like heavyweights and have the speed of the lightweights. You have the best of world worlds.

The only separation the Bible knows is between believers on the one hand and unbelievers on the other. Any other kind of separation, division, disunity is of the devil. It is evil and from sin.

The Muslim world suffers from internal divisions, antidemocratic practices, and the violation of fundamental human rights and freedoms.

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks.

The politics of personal destruction, the politics of division, the politics of fear, it's all there. It helps you to define the politics of moderation - the politics of democratic respect, the politics of hope - more clearly.

The problems of tribal conflicts in Kenya are much older, caused by the former colonial power. A former American ambassador there once wrote about how the CIA has contributed to the divisions between Kenyans.

The problem of abolishing want is not a problem in division, as the politicians so often aver; it is a problem of multiplication.

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

The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united.