Division In Politics Quotes

#1. There's a lot of division in politics, and that is why I am grateful to be a part of a show like 'Veep.' It makes light of the daunting aspects of the political world.

Sufe Bradshaw

#2. Why do people fear hell so much? With so much hatred and division amongst mankind, we are already in it.

Suzy Kassem

#3. A frog in a well does not know the great sea.

Chris Bradford

#4. But dying is for the sweetest ones. And he remembers sweetness, when life was sweet, and sweetly he was given that other lifetime.

Raymond Carver

#5. It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

LeVar Burton

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

Henry Wriston

#7. Where lies your text?
Viola: In Orsino's bosom.
Olivia: In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?
Viola: To answer by the method, in the first of his heart.

William Shakespeare

#8. 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.

John Adams

#9. The problem is that faith based upon twisted information is nothing more than delusion - and delusion leads to division. It divided humanity, taking us into endless wars - separating us by race, religion, and politics.

R. Brown

#10. But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.

Clare Short

#11. Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.

Anthony Trollope

#12. to say that man is a social animal is also to say that man never lives in a world completely of his own choosing.

Gresham M. Sykes

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

George Orwell

#14. For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.

Ed Rendell

#15. Entertainment is one of America's greatest exports. And the stories that we tell about people inform the world about how to think about people.

Kelly McCreary

#16. I didn't remember much partisan division in Kansas when I was growing up. People here had been more mainstream then. A strong current of practical common sense and reasonableness had run through both Ward's and my childhoods. We recognized it in each other.

Julene Bair

#17. If we are to put an end to division, people from all political persuasions will have to stop fighting one another and seek true unity, not just a consensus that benefits one party.

Ben Carson

#18. You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.

Laurens Van Der Post

#19. I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.

Hillary Clinton

#20. To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.

Paul Ryan

#21. The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: "Government by Gotcha".

David Pietrusza

#22. If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, becomes a danger and a scourge.

Benjamin Constant

#23. If you say you're a unifier, you expect and usually get applause. I'm a divider. Politics is division by definition, if there was no disagreement there would be no politics. The illusion of unity isn't worth having, and is anyways unattainable.

Christopher Hitchens

#24. We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second term, when it was obvious that he would be the first and only consensus president.

William J. Clinton

#25. The political tactics of division and slander are not our values. They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.

John McCain

#26. In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.

Hugh Dancy

#27. More riveting to me in the end than the politics of Berlin was the vast social experiment its division had become... it was possible to have freedom and plenty in the West and craft an empty life; it was possible to "have nothing" in the East and create a life of intimacy and dignity and beauty.

Krista Tippett