Polarized Quotes

#1. We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.

Hamilton Jordan

#2. In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.

Ivan Illich

#3. If one has to be right, then one has to be wrong, in a polarized world. Yes and no. But between yes and no there is an infinite range of possibilities, a full spectrum of maybe. If you are stuck in either/or, then you are missing the infinite." ~Gi

Brandon W. Jones

#4. The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

John Avlon

#5. I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do.

David Brooks

#6. Simply having opposition brought latent feelings to the surface and polarized views he might otherwise hardly have bothered to formulate. It became
urgent for him to revile Richard Strauss, and he did it happily but a little hysterically, as if far
more than questions of taste were involved.

Alan Hollinghurst

#7. [Barack] Obama has a grasp of language and the presentation of language, particularly in times of crisis. And he did this over the race issue. He did this early on in his administration, when the country was polarized. That was unprecedented.

Frank Luntz

#8. So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle.

Howard Dean

#9. I consider the opportunity to bear witness to the eloquent beauty of Baikida's music a distinct honor. Baikida Carroll is polarized; poised; at a matchless point between lyricism and fire.

Julius Hemphill

#10. From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.

N. T. Wright

#11. Love is like a pair of polarized sunglasses, making every color seem more vivid, richer, warmer. Without it we stare at the world dull-eyed and flinch at the thought it might remain the same forever.

Carol Vorvain

#12. Because our society is so polarized between homosexuals and heterosexuals, the bisexual closet has two doors.

Loraine Hutchins

#13. When the contrary magnetic poles were on the same side, there was an effect produced on the polarized ray, and thus magnetic force and light were proved to have relation to each other ...

Michael Faraday

#14. For reasons we don't have to get into, climate change has become an incredibly polarized issue in the United States. I think that is sad. My own personal view is that we're in a planetary emergency such has not been seen in 600,000 years.

Marshall Herskovitz

#15. I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting.

Lily Cole

#16. I find that Americans are all in the middle somewhere, except for the extreme nuts, and extreme nuts on both sides are the loudest. And that's why it feels like we are polarized.

Christopher Titus

#17. We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get beyond polarized politics.

Cornel West

#18. Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.

Ron Fournier

#19. I don't think good and evil are polarized.

Sam Mendes

#20. Don't mistake good with easy. Sometimes the two are companions. Often they are polarized. Much like a grand marriage.

Peggy Sue Wells

#21. There aren't many sources of money in San Diego, apart from local partnerships and local investors. It's pretty starkly polarized to Silicon Valley.

Steve Jurvetson

#22. From the moment of birth, at every level, human beings who are more alike than different become polarized into two absolutely exclusive classes with very different and ill-distributed symbolic powers.

Nancy Mairs

#23. The more polarized the gender roles, the more violent the society. The less polarized the gender roles, the more peaceful the society.

Gloria Steinem

#24. Resentment had erased all ambiguity in our encounters with people like him; we had been polarized into "us" and "them.

Azar Nafisi

#25. People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking ... '1861, that was polarized.'

P. J. O'Rourke

#26. A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington.

Ron Fournier

#27. If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.

Philip K. Dick

#28. A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.

James Wolcott

#29. To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.

Maxine Kumin

#30. Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides.

Spencer Bachus

#31. We live in a polarized world of contrived dualisms, dichotomies and paradoxes: light vs. dark and good vs. evil. We as Mexic Amerindians/mestizas are the dark. We are the evilor at least, the questionable.

Ana Castillo

#32. I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization.

George Saunders

#33. We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

Alan Lightman

#34. The polarized world: We're all in it together vs Me and Mine and to hell with everyone else.

William Hageman

#35. So many people operate in a world of right and wrong [that] they become polarized. You're conservative or you're liberal; and if you're one or the other, you can't be both. I just think that this idea of right and wrong is kind of a damaging idea.

Robert Kiyosaki

#36. As a result, we create our own camps, attend only our own gatherings and conferences; soon enough, we're talking only to those who agree with us. Dialogue within the ummah disappears, our differences become only more polarized and our views become more extreme.

Yasmin Mogahed

#37. As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

Pat Buchanan

#38. America is militarily overstretched, politically polarized and financially indebted.

Ivan Krastev

#39. I found that in such a small, polarized society, taking sides meant you were actively rejecting others, animating opposition.

Thelma Adams

#40. In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.

Lawrence Lessig

#41. I think America has always been polarized.

Alice Walker

#42. What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in as mayor when there was hate and greed and misunderstanding among our people and the races were polarized.

Walter Washington

#43. Redistricting and a broken, polarized Congress have made it tough to be a moderate in Congress.

Mike Ross

#44. They tend to forget that nothing in a polarized universe can exist without its opposite being present. -

Frank Herbert

#45. Affluence isn't affluence at all. Hong Kong is the benchmark; everybody else's affluence is mere tat. Until you've experienced that perfume-washed air as polarized glass doors embrace you into a luxury hotel's plush interior, you've only had a dud replica of the real thing.

Jonathan Gash

#46. The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.

Pope Francis

#47. diagonally polarized photons are in a quantum quandary when confronted by a vertical Polaroid filter.

Simon Singh

#48. Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.

Jane Goodall

#49. If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare. Here it was as though he
had found a polarized lens that deepened and intensified all seen through it.

Annie Proulx

#50. What I love is getting polarized opinions.

Brendon Urie

#51. The debate on climate change and global warming has been intensely polarized. A great deal of this 'noise' has clouded the very real and emerging issues that we as an industry and society need to address.

Johnny Chan