Division Quotes - page 3

People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict. (Ludwig von Mises)
We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation. View quote
Roy Barnes
Geometry has two great treasures: one is the Theorem of Phythagoras, the other the division of a line in extreme and mean ratio. The first we can compare to a mass of gold; the other we may call a precious jewel. View quote
Johannes Kepler
As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah, so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital . View quote
Karl Marx
The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour. View quote
Adam Smith
This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many. View quote
Adam Smith
Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
We must never allow September 11th to become a time for protest and division. Instead, this day must remain a time for promoting peace and mutual respect. View quote
Timothy M. Dolan
I aspire to be the president of all Venezuelans. The message is clear. Venezuelans are fed up with confrontation, with division. (Henrique Capriles Radonski)
The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does. View quote
David Rubenstein
In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death. View quote
Bao Dai
The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts. View quote
David Edward Kirk
There is more power in unity than division. View quote
Emanuel Cleaver
I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition. View quote
Jean-Francois Cope
We shall seek debate without division or rancour. View quote
Johann Lamont
The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality. View quote
Khaleda Zia
We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature. View quote
Peter Hain
For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play. View quote
Penelope Leach
I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was almost midnight, and I got a computer message from the home office of the Washington Post asking me to call them. I did call them and was told that I'd won the Pulitzer Prize. (Rick Atkinson)
In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born. View quote
Roberto Unger
I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney. View quote
Star Jones
Everything we talk about is about beating the Packers, the Bears and the Vikings. Obviously there are other teams in the league, but if you can dominate and be on top of your division you are always in the playoff hunt. It's time for us to win that thing. View quote
Steve Mariucci
There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that's here. View quote
Tara Brach