World Divided Quotes

#1. War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states

Donald Kagan

#2. A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.

Winston Churchill

#3. If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

#4. The dining room table in the home of a person living alone becomes the entire world, divided into countries: the area for the mail, for work if there is any, a small duchy set aside for the placement of one dish, one bowl, one fork.

Anna Quindlen

#5. In a world divided by chimpophiles and bonobophiles, we all had a good laugh when Stephen peeled his banana. (62)

Frans De Waal

#6. For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#7. In a world divided by differences of nationality, race, colour, religion and wealth [the rule of law] is one of the greatest unifying factors, perhaps the greatest, the nearest we are likely to approach to a universal secular religion.

Tom Bingham

#8. Only by showing the world the cataclysmic cost of a world divided can it appreciate the wonders of life and endless possibilities of a world united.

William Bailey

#9. The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide just because we can't agree on whose fairy tales to believe.
In the end, Religion will kill us all.

Ed Krebs

#10. When you're fat, the world is divided into two groups - people who bug you and people who leave you alone. The funny thing is, supporters and saboteurs exist in either camp.

Elizabeth Taylor

#11. After trauma the world becomes sharply divided between those who know and those who don't. People who have not shared the traumatic experience cannot be trusted, because they can't understand it. Sadly, this often includes spouses, children, and co-workers. Later

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#12. In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

Barack Obama

#13. ... and [thanks] to Ludmila Parks for explaining to me that the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have read the Brothers Karamazov and those who have not.

Marci Shore

#14. As the world continually multiplies, are we in a generation where people are divided, or people are equal?

Anthony Liccione

#15. The world seemed divided into girls with boyfriends and girls without them. It was the distinction that mattered the most, practically the only one that did matter. But I knew that boys were dangerous. They'd say they loved you, but they were always after something.

Jeannette Walls

#16. We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!'Let's fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice! The world is laughing at us.

Donald Trump

#17. The world is divided into 2 streams - the one of 'Vistarvaad' & and the other of 'Vikasvaad'. Vikasvaad is indispensable in 21st Century! India & Japan need to join hands to take the pride of Vikasvaad to greater heights.

Narendra Modi

#18. It was a place for people with mental health problems and not alcoholics; as though the two could be neatly divided like that; as though the world was black and white and not a murky grey.

Victoria Spry

#19. She quickly discovered that the world is divided into people who know how to be comfortable by themselves on a bar chair and people who do not.

Jonathan Franzen

#20. I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels.

Mithun Chakraborty

#21. Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of people [they're] with and this 'other' reality.

Sherry Turkle

#22. Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

Arundhati Roy

#23. Call it insensitivity or a passion for remorse, I have never undertaken to rescue what little Absolute this world contains.

Emil M. Cioran

#24. We have a tendency in this country that when we say Black it automatically means Black Americans. But that's a big mistake, and that keeps us divided. There are Blacks all over this entire world-even in Africa.

Irene Cara

#25. The pageant of life is divided into ying and yang. They're two circles. You can follow either circle and manage to develop enough speed to move beyond this world to other worlds, dimensional realities.

Frederick Lenz

#26. Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

Dennis Prager

#27. Sexual energy is divided into three distinct types. First: the energy having to do with the reproduction of the species. Second: the energy having to do with the spheres of thought, feeling and will. Third: the energy that is found related with the world of pure Spirit.

Samael Aun Weor

#28. I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.

Malala Yousafzai

#29. The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.

Piero Scaruffi

#30. The sword is the axis of the world and grandeur cannot be divided.

Charles De Gaulle

#31. The operators divided the world into two categories: shooters and non-shooters.

Mitchell Zuckoff

#32. The world had been divided into two parts that sought to annihilate each other because they both desired the same thing, namely the liberation of the oppressed, the elimination of violence, and the establishment of permanent peace.

Hermann Hesse

#33. The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Vaclav Havel

#34. Still, she was not sorry. If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.

Catherynne M Valente

#35. That was it. In Annie's view all the people in the world were divided into three groups: brats, poor poor things ... and Annie.

Stephen King

#36. It is either all of Christ or none of Christ! I believe we need to preach again a whole Christ to the world - a Christ who does not need our apologies, a Christ who will not be divided, a Christ who will either be Lord of all or will not be Lord at all!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#37. But the universe isn't fair. Things don't work out neatly, pain, hardship and challenges divided equally among those best equipped to deal with them. Sometimes individuals have to be Atlases and carry the weight of the world alone. It shouldn't happen that way, but it does.

Darren Shan

#38. So farwel Hope, and with Hope farwel Fear, Farwel Remorse: all Good to me is lost; Evil be thou my Good; by thee at least Divided Empire with Heav'ns King I hold By thee, and more then half perhaps will reigne; As Man ere long, and this new World shall know. Thus

John Milton

#39. If you could drink dreams like the Irish streams
Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn
In the Pool they told us the story
How the English divided the land ...

John Lennon

#40. It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.

Kwame Nkrumah

#41. It already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups: the doers and the watchers. The people things happen to and the rest of us, who just sort of plod on with things.

Gayle Forman

#42. The way I see it, the world is divided into the watchers and the watchees, and there's more and more of the audience and less and less to see. People who actually do anything are a goddamned endangered species.

Lionel Shriver

#43. The world was divided into two groups: those who showered at night, and those who showered in the morning.

Linda Howard

#44. They all knew borders no longer divided the world so much as ideologies.

James Rollins

#45. It is a general truism of this world that anything long divided will surely unite, and anything long united will surely divide.

Luo Guanzhong

#46. Treece quite seriously divided the world into writers, who led life as a conscious effort, and people, and people who didn't; sometimes he preferred writers and sometimes he preferred people.

Malcolm Bradbury

#47. The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.

Richard Russo

#48. The world is divided between those who stay and those who leave.

Bharati Mukherjee

#49. The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing.

Eyedea

#50. From Olsen's Nation: "Through the power of our diplomacy, a world that was once divided about how to deal with Iran's nuclear program now stands as one. Standing as one, the world now sincerely regrets Iran's nuclear program." - President Bodvar Olsen, fifth State of the Union address

Randy Quarles

#51. Eventually the world will no longer be divided by the ideologies of 'left' and 'right' but by those who accept ecological limits and those who don't.

Wolfgang Sachs

#52. Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.

Maeve Binchy

#53. The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.

George Mikes

#54. Today is the great day of one of the revelations of this world. The interrelationships of these individual realms were illumined as by a flash of lightning; they burst unexpected, frightening, and joyous out of the darkness. Never were they so strongly tied together and never so sharply divided ...

Wassily Kandinsky

#55. The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

Oscar Wilde

#56. He also wanted her to grow up in a united world, not a divided one. Naya should never have to choose between the two sides of her heritage.

Nalini Singh

#57. For him all the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class - all the girls in the world except her, and those girls with all sorts of human weaknesses, and very ordinary girls: the other class - she alone, having no weaknesses of any sort and higher than all humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

#58. Why do we persist in this divided idiocy? Because the world is full of prideful bastards, that's why. Everyone believes they're smarter than everyone else, more capable than everyone else, more justified than everyone else. Humility went extinct a long time ago.

Orson Scott Card

#59. The world is divided into three kinds of people: A very small group that makes things happen; a somewhat larger group that watches things happen; and a great multitude that never knows what has happened.

Nicholas Murray Butler

#60. I have this theory that almost everything in the world can be divided into two groups.

Gayle Forman

#61. The world is not divided into two types of being, one superior and the other merely surrounding it. Being, nature, the universe - they are all one infinitely complex and mysterious metaorganism of which we are but a part, though a unique one.

Vaclav Havel

#62. That there should be so wide a difference between us Americans and these English, from whom we were divided, so to say, but the other day, is one of the most peculiar physiological phenomena that the history of the world will have afforded. As

Anthony Trollope

#63. The 1990 'Goodwill Games' can be another indication that the television world is not divided between commercial and cable. If the viewer thinks highly of our efforts ... they will have a higher opinion of cable television and TBS.

Tony Verna

#64. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, ... or holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.

Joseph Addison

#65. The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History

Maude Barlow

#66. The divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.

Steve Martin

#67. The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.

Adam Schiff

#68. The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

Barbara Amiel

#69. This world's divided into two kinds of people: the hunter and the hunted. Luckily I'm the hunter. Nothing can change that.

Joel McCrea

#70. She says that the world is divided into the people who imagine their own funerals and the people who don't, and that smart and artistic people naturally fall into the former category.

Gayle Forman

#71. Ethically and politically it is important to face up to the need for a universal perspective in our divided, multi-cultural, unequal and unjust world.

Alison Assiter

#72. It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better ... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Woody Allen

#73. Another current catch-phrase is the complaint that the nations of the world are divided into 'haves' and the 'have-nots.' Observe that the 'haves' are those who have freedom, and that it is freedom that the 'have-nots' have not.

Ayn Rand

#74. In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.

Juan Goytisolo

#75. All the painters who appear in our museums are
failures at painting; the only people ever talked
about are failures; the world is divided into two
categories of people: failures and those unknown.

Francis Picabia

#76. Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.

Eliot Spitzer

#77. The human world, he reflected, was divided into little clusters of people - tiny tribes, small groups of friends, families - and if you belonged to only a few of these, then your life was circumscribed.

Alexander McCall Smith

#78. People will tell you that the world is divided into good and bad, and that I'm bad, but it's not, and I'm not. The real truth is that I make choices based on my circumstances. We all do. It trumps everything else, whether you know it or not. There has never been a good or bad.

Zia Marie

#79. Because the world isn't divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extra ordinary.

Cassandra Clare

#80. Jesus asked the Father for his disciples' security, sanctity and unity. Jesus still intercedes for us so fervently because we live in a world that is deceived, dangerous, defiled and divided.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#81. The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

William Shenstone

#82. The English-Speaking world is divided into those who have read 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' and those who are going to read them.

SUNDAY TIMES

#83. She knew that the world was plainly divided into those who fought an unrelenting battle to live, and those who surrendered and died. This was a simple fact.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#84. Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.

Herbert Simon

#85. The people of the world could be divided into two groups: those who used all of their chances, and those who stood still through opportunity after opportunity, waiting for a moment that would never be perfect.

Jade Chang

#86. Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.

Alfred Kinsey

#87. The World is pretty much divided between the weak of mind & the strong- between those who can act & those who cannot, & it is the bounden Duty of the Capable to let no opportunity of being useful escape them.

Jane Austen

#88. The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not - when they strayed from the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#89. The room was so unearthly quiet, I lost all sense of time being divided into seconds. I felt that I was the only person alive and moving in a world brought to a stop.

Banana Yoshimoto

#90. The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Avicenna

#91. He had nerve damage: input could not penetrate. The world stalled out at his edges. Sometimes he had trouble speaking to other people, rummaging for language, and it seemed to him that an invisible layer divided him from the rest of the world, a membrane of emotional surface tension.

Colson Whitehead

#92. On the other side of Mid-World, Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger, had drawn this divided woman to him and had created a third, who was far better, far stronger, than either of the previous two.

Stephen King

#93. When we are deeply divided over important issues facing our country and the world, "In God We Trust" for the guidance and wisdom to do what's both right and necessary for our Republic.

Marco Rubio

#94. If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.

Eve Ensler

#95. As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the credible from the incredible has tended to blur; I am aware that the whole world is slightly incredible

Colin Wilson

#96. For ages they had been without lives of their own. The whole of their being was open to the world and nothing divided them from the rest of creation.

Thomas Ligotti

#97. The history of this world was divided into two phases: the present age, which was controlled by the forces of evil, and the age to come, in which God would rule supreme.

Bart D. Ehrman

#98. I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on certain definite people and punish the guilty. I'm still going through the motions.

Ross Macdonald

#99. Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

Alexander Skarsgard

#100. The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

Alfred A. Montapert