Political Divisions Quotes

#1. I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.

Brian Greene

#2. True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

Henry Cabot Lodge

#3. Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.

Barry Eichengreen

#4. I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#5. I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!

Charles Dickens

#6. And perhaps that was typical of a certain . . . imbalance in their friendship that had always been there and which Clive had been aware of somewhere in his heart and had always pushed away, disliking himself for unworthy thoughts. Until now.

Ian McEwan

#7. Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political gain.

Dinaw Mengestu

#8. I have a problem with state lines, anyway. They interrupt things. They fragment ecosystems, which are nature's most gracious and logical land divisions.

Michael McCoy

#9. I appeal to the Youth and those on the ground: start talking to each other across divisions of race and political organizations.

Nelson Mandela

#10. Although [in 1937] we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and interests, strategic as well as political, lay with France, a fact which some of my colleagues were most reluctant to realise.

Anthony Eden

#11. We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

Bob Dole

#12. I'm Bipolar but as normal as you except for the times my mind thinks like two

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#13. Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable. Nor will they perceive the distribution of wealth and resources between nations to be unalterably ordained by heaven and incapable of drastic rearrangement by the less than gentle manipulation of man.

Bob Hawke

#14. I think that political parties are fuelling this fear in order to create divisions. The more we bring up fear, the more we neglect real political issues. Political debate in France is crumbling since every single issue is brought to Islam now.

Tariq Ramadan

#15. Whether you're talking about political borders or aesthetic divisions (and clearly, the political ones have much more tragic consequences), it seems like once they are created, we want to patrol them, enforce them.

Matthea Harvey

#16. nepotism, patronage, political corruption, and ethnic divisions.

Wayne Worcester

#17. My big subject as a historian is how Americans divide themselves. What are the divisions that structure our political lives. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were perfect foils for that story.

Rick Perlstein

#18. I had never been attracted to younger guys. I had, from my late teens, always liked men who were older than me.

Annette Bening

#19. Most problems look worse than they are. nothing is unfixable.

Rick Riordan

#20. Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.

Sydney J. Harris