Division Quotes

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic. (Evelyn Waugh)
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. View quote
John Buchan
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. View quote
Joseph Stalin
A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict. View quote
Robert Shea
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. View quote
John Adams
World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build. View quote
Julia Ward Howe
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken. View quote
George MacDonald
The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing. View quote
Eduardo Galeano
Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society. (Patrick J. Kennedy)
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. View quote
Stephen Rea
I've got a lot to prove because of the criticism over my weight and moving back down a division. View quote
Ricky Hatton
There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state, the majesty of the people, call it what you will - a doge, an avoyer, an archon, a president, a consul, a syndic; this becomes at once an object of ambition and dispute, and, in time, of division, faction, sedition, and rebellion. View quote
John Adams
There is nothing which I dread so much as a 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. View quote
John Adams
By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world. View quote
Alain de Botton
When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
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. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Imperialism is capitalism in that stage of development in which the domination of monopolies and finance capital has established itself; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun; in which the partition of all the territories of the globe among the great capitalist powers has been completed. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
The error in positivism is that it takes as its standard of truth the contingently given division of labor, that between the science and social praxis as well as that within science itself, and allows no theory that could reveal the division of labor to be itself derivative and mediated and thus strip it of its false authority. (Theodor Adorno)
We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like – the anti-war government nig– uh, the – America was a source for division around the world, that what we were doing was wrong. View quote
Rick Santorum
At this point, an urgent question arises:... Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being, one quite sufficient unto himself; or, on the contrary, to be only a part of a whole, the organ of an organism? Briefly, is the division of labor, at the same time that it is a law of nature, also a moral rule of human conduct; and, if it has this latter character, why and in what degree? View quote
Émile Durkheim
When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between "what is" and "what should be." View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor. View quote
Marshall McLuhan