Best 293 quotes in «division quotes» category

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 new racism: Racism without 'racists.' Today, racial segregation and division often result from habits, policies, and institutions that are not explicitly designed to discriminate. Contrary to popular belief, discrimination or segregation do not require animus. They thrive even in the absence of prejudice or ill will. It's common to have racism without racists.

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

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

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

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.

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

There are the countries of the north of Europe taking decisions and the countries of the south of Europe that are living under intervention. This division exists.

There are no days off in our division. Even a team like Tampa Bay can beat you up.

The Redskins haven't won the division since 1999, and we came in and we did it in one year!

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

There is no change in the top six of division 2, except that Leeds have moved into the top six

There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.

There is a division within the neo-conservative movement, which is, by the way, one of the tests of its authenticity as a tendency. I would say I was a supporter of Paul Wolfowitz.

The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition.

The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed to recognise that the state and public sector can become a vested interest capable of oppression as much as the vested interests of wealth and capital. it was based on a false view of class that became too rigid to explain or illuminate the nature of class division today.

The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.

There were two second division matches last night, both in the second division.

This is a Pandora's box, for endless litigation, for division in society setting one group against another, and we must for that reason, for community cohesion, resist this bill.

This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.