Quotes About What Divides Us

#1. What unites us, is much greater than what divides us.

Pope John XXIII

#2. There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

Geraldine Brooks

#3. Whereas devotees of globalization stress what unifies humankind, traditional realists stress what divides us.

Robert D. Kaplan

#4. Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.

Sargent Shriver

#5. I want to be a person who has her eyes on what unites people, not what divides us.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#6. It is a great privilege to meet inspiring leaders from different parts of the church - Catholic, Baptist, Salvation Army, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Methodist, and so many more - and discover that what unites us is infinitely greater than what divides us.

Nicky Gumbel

#7. We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.

Charlie Dent

#8. What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.

Edward Kennedy

#9. What unites the church is infinitely more important than what divides us.

Nicky Gumbel

#10. We are not quite conscious of the reason for our disdain when we refer to the illiterate past as wallowing in ignorance ... What divides us from them is the column of print. Theirs was a total culture involving all the senses, while ours is a culture concentrated in the literate eye.

Nick Joaquin

#11. People stand themselves next to the righteous They believe the things they say are true They speak in terms of what divides us To justify the violence they do But it is one, it is one One world spinning 'round the sun Wherever it is you call home Whatever country you come from It is one

Jackson Browne

#12. You can't divide human beings into the "those who make sacrifices" and "those who don't." We all carry things in our hearts for which we are very willing to make sacrifices. The issue that divides us is for what, or for whom, are we willing to make these personal sacrifices.

Paul David Tripp

#13. I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

Twyla Tharp

#14. David McKnight gives us the tools to work out where we stand - and what unites rather than divides us - as the struggle to defend our democracy begins in earnest

Margo Kingston

#15. Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.

Octavio Paz

#16. An inverse operation multiplies to such a degree what concerns our welfare and divides by such a formidable figure what does not concern it, that the death of millions of unknown people hardly affects us more unpleasantly than a draught.

Marcel Proust

#17. God must love the rich or he wouldn't divide so much among so few of them.

H.L. Mencken

#18. Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them.

G.K. Chesterton

#19. The things that unite us-America's past of which we are so proud, our hopes and aspirations for the future of the world and this much loved country-these things far outweigh what little divides us.

Ronald Reagan

#20. I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

Doris Lessing

#21. [Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.

Joseph Epstein

#22. What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.

Pierre-Jean De Beranger

#23. Nobody in the West should forget that what unites the two main branches of Islam is far greater that what divides them, and that the vast majority of all Muslims still cherish the ideal of unity preached by Muhammad himself - an ideal the more deeply held for being so deeply broken.

Anonymous

#24. There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.

Marcus Samuelsson