Division Quotes

Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept will seek to remove.

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

A state is organic when it has a center, and this center is an idea that shapes the various domains of life in an efficacious way; it is organic when it ignores the division and the autonomization of the particular and when, by virtue of the system of hierarchical participation, every part within its relative autonomy performs its own function and enjoys an intimate connection with the whole.

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

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

Where there is division, there is sin.

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.

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

General Lee, I have no division.

Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

Differences will always exist, but division doesn't always have to result.

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.

Correct division should be preferred over corrupt unity.

I would say that I am having less sex now that I’m playing in Serie B – there is more to think about in this division.

In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an extensive domain, but they have not entered this domain themselves. By their very nature they are more interested in the way in which the gate is opened than in the garden lying behind it.

Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.

By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a point where further division has no meaning.

I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.

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.

I would rather he had given me one more division

Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?

It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.

I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.

Give me a Japanese division armed with bamboo spears and I'll wipe out the entire Russian Far Eastern Army.

When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.

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.

I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.

I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division.

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.

Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy. The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.

It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder.

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

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

All I do know is that I'll never be able to achieve what Tommy Docherty did, and that is take Aston Villa into the third division and Manchester United into the second division

When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

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.

Envy creates the beginning of strife.

I want to bring excitement back to the heavyweight division.

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

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.

Knowledge is one. Its division into subjects is a concession to human weakness.