Top 50 Quotes About Polarization
#1. There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
Brad Henry
#2. Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.
Mick Jagger
#3. America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.
Alice Walker
#4. Any factor that breeds polarization will worsen policy, and thus cause lower growth.
William Easterly
#5. The depth of the middle class is waning as the polarization of society is in progress.
Katsuya Okada
#6. Polarization (is) a tendency for groups to form judgments that are more extreme than individuals' personal opinions.
Alexandra Robbins
#7. The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.
Pieter Zeeman
#8. One of the big problems in America's economic polarization and shrinkage is that pensions can't be paid. So there are going to be defaults on pensions here, just like Europeans are insisting in rolling back pensions. You can look at Greece and Argentina as the future of America.
Michael Hudson
#9. The interesting point is that the polarization is not so much among the public, although there's some of that. The polarization on the immigration issue is really between the elites and the public. In other words, this is not so much a right-left issue, which it is partly.
Mark Krikorian
#11. Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to institutionalize the polarization of aggression.
Freda Adler
#12. At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?
Ron Fournier
#13. A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness, its potential, my heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization, less finger-pointing, less bitterness, less mindless partisanship.
Tom Coburn
#15. I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.
Joichi Ito
#16. Low-income Americans' potential for mobility is often impaired by family breakdown, cultural dysfunction, and the polarization of norms
Yuval Levin
#17. There's peacetime and there's wartime, and you don't need polarization on wartime issues. You need polarization on all other issues.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#18. I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.
Lee Daniels
#19. I'm a fan of polarization. If you make something that is palatable to everybody, it's like making vanilla ice cream, and I think we have enough of that.
Chris Stapleton
#20. Egalitarians never seem to understand that promoting economic equality in theory means promoting resentments and polarization in practice, making everyone worse off. - Thomas Sowell (2016)
George Gilder
#21. The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me.' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no middle ground to the moneychangers in the Temple. One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.
Saul Alinsky
#22. He felt the slowly healing polarization of his mind, matching his to hers, the alignment of all his prejudices and conceits to the lodestone of the image she represented for him.
Iain M. Banks
#23. We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is not something to play, because race is a very dangerous political plaything.
Thomas Sowell
#24. 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
#25. You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences in racial and ethnic polarization on campus.
Thomas Sowell
#26. The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.
Susan Sontag
#27. My heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization Less mindless partisanship, which at times sounds almost hateful to the ear of Americans. How we conduct ourselves and how we treat you, Judge Roberts, can be a great start toward reconciliation in our country.
Tom Coburn
#28. Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between.
Gayle Rubin
#29. We have to be very cautious not to accept the scam of polarization we see in the media. It is not in fact between secularists and Islamists, it is a battle within the Islamic reference.
Tariq Ramadan
#30. The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.
Edward Brooke
#31. In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.
Thomas E. Mann
#32. They suggest that with respect to facts, partisan differences are much less sharp than they seem - and that political polarization is often an artifact of the survey setting.
Cass R. Sunstein
#33. Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.
Ken Mehlman
#34. 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
#35. If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.
George Papandreou
#36. Press critics worry that the rise of media polarization threatens the foundation of credible, common information that American politics needs to thrive.
John Harwood
#37. I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.
Azar Nafisi
#38. The fundamentalist burns with anti-intellectual zeal, and in reaction sophists are often swollen up with intellectualism. The fundamentalist and the sophist justify their excesses by the sin of their opposite. Fundamentalism and sophistry give piety and philosophy bad reputations with society.
John Mark Reynolds
#39. Resentment had erased all ambiguity in our encounters with people like him; we had been polarized into "us" and "them.
Azar Nafisi
#40. When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.
Molly Ivins
#41. Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another's point of view, but instead were more and more enclosed in our own bubbles. Democracy requires a reliance on shared facts; instead were being offered parallel but separate universes.
Eli Pariser
#42. Were people to mingle only with those of like mind, every man would be an insulate being." Thomas Jefferson
John Ferling
#43. My Subaru friends are upstanding members of the Creative Class. They also for burnt Democrats. As it turns out, Republicans in their neighborhood are about as rare as Cadillacs.
Julie Sedivy
#44. Where did it go, the moderate opine? I can't find it here nor there!
'Perhaps then it's twixt the false dichotomy?
Kevin Focke
#45. The follies that produced the loss of American virtue following Vietnam begin with continuous overreacting, in the invention of endangered national security, the invention of vital interest, the invention of a commitment which rapidly assumed a life of its own .
Barbara W. Tuchman
#46. The 1970s, fewer than 25% of US residents lived in counties in which the presidential candidate won by landslide. 30 years later, that percentage has nearly doubled.
Alexandra Robbins
#47. There are not enough purple states. No one votes in primaries, except the most ideological. And big money comes in to support or oppose the candidates in those primaries.
Evan Bayh
#48. It is the nature of humankind to idealize, to indulge in excessive praise as well as unjust condemnation.
Peter Ackroyd
#49. Modernity gone wrong has isolated humanity and made human reason autonomous of (and dismissive toward) revelation.
John Mark Reynolds
#50. The author observers that better technology actually increased division because rival outlets funded by rival parties could get their slant to the partisans
Harold Holzer
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