Divided Quotes - Page 22

• Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Purpose, Indirect, Direct

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.396, Cambridge University Press

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• If Adenauer were here with us in the sauna, we could see for ourselves that Germany is and will remain divided but also that Germany never will rise again.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Germany, Saunas, Ifs

  During a visit to sauna with Finland's president Kekkonen in June 1957. "Våldets århundrade". Book by Max Jakobson, p. 220, 2001.

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• How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

  Paulo Freire

  Dehumanization, Liberation, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team. We charged money for tickets, saying the proceeds went to our school's recycling program. Then, immediately after the show, we divided up all the money and kept it.

  Joe Mande

  Team, School, Black

  "10 Comics to Watch: Joe Mande Q&A". Interview with Daniel Lehman, www.backstage.com. July 9, 2012.

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• This is not a dispute about whether planning is to be done or not. It is a dispute as to whether planning is to be done centrally, by one authority for the whole economic system, or is to be divided among many individuals.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Done, Planning, Economic

  "The Use of Knowledge in Society" by Friedrich Hayek, American Economic Review, September 1945.

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• Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
  Equality of rights is a peculiar feature of democracies. These rights are properly divided into civil and political, though even these definitions are not to be taken as absolute, or as literally exact.

  James F. Cooper

  Military, Men, Law

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.

  Saad Hariri

  Would Be, Lebanon, Want

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• America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Europe, America, Argument

  Timothy Garton Ash (2005). “Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West”, p.169, Vintage

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• A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.

  Jefferson Davis

  Exercise, Race, Government

  Jefferson Davis (1963). “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Complete)”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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• Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.

  Benjamin Graham

  Destiny, Milk And Honey, Years

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Part I, Chapter I, The Changing Role of Surplus Stocks, p. 4, 1937.

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• A party should not contain utterly incongruous elements, radically divided on the real issues, and acting together only on false and dead issues insincerely painted as real and vital. It should not in the several States as well as in the Nation be prostituted to the service of the baser type of political boss. It should be so composed that there should be a reasonable agreement in the actions taken by it both in the Nation and in the several States. Judged by these standards, both of the old parties break down.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Party, Taken

  "Platform Insincerity". The Outlook Magazine, Vol. 101, No. 13, p. 660, July 27, 1912.

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• The life of the spirit may be fairly represented in diagram as a large acute-angled triangle divided horizontally into unequal parts with the narrowest segment uppermost. The lower the segment the greater it is in breadth, depth, and area.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Depth, Triangles, May

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Kandinsky”, p.23, Parkstone International

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• Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept will seek to remove.

  Robert Mugabe

  Division, Remove, Artificial

  Robert Mugabe's speech at a meeting in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, April 9, 1962.

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• The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.

  David Ricardo

  Land, Class, Community

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.5

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• But even if we were to disappear, people would still be divided into people and Others. No matter how those Others were different.People can't get by without Others. Put two people on an uninhabited island, and you'll have a human being and an Other. And the difference is that an Other is always tormented by his differentness. It's easier for people. They know they're people, and that's what they ought to be. And they all have no choice but to be that way. All of them, forever.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Two, Differences, Islands

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• Major cities are divided into two parts; the bits that are in the guidebook and the bits that aren't. If you don't take a guidebook, you'll see a different city.

  Guy Browning

  Cities, Two, Different

  2002 InThe Guardian, 21 May.

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• I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Children, Divorce, Years

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As water in a fountain flows as one stream,
  but falls in many drops divided by time and space,
  so are the revelations of the one stream of truth.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Fall, Space, Water

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (2011). “A Sufi Message of Spiritual Liberty”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Matter can be conveniently divided for descriptive purposes into space , time , mass, and energy . However we can only describe any one of these phenomena in terms of the other three. Any definitions we care to make about matter are thus tautological .

  Peter J. Carroll

  Space, Energy, Three

  Peter J Carroll (1992). “Liber Kaos”, p.83, Weiser Books

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• If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men believe in the lies of religion since they cannot do without them, and let then a handful of sages, who know the truth and can live with it, keep it among themselves. Men are then divided into the wise and the foolish, the philosophers and the common men, and atheism becomes a guarded, esoteric doctrine - for if the illusions of religion were to be discredited, there is no telling with what madness men would be seized, with what uncontrollable anguish.

  Irving Kristol

  Wise, Lying, Believe

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• History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the Iron Curtain that divided Germany and Europe, and indeed the world, into two blocs.

  Angela Merkel

  Wall, East Germany, Years

  Angela Merkel's Remarks in an Exchange of Toasts with President Obama, www.newsroomamerica.com. June 7, 2011.

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• Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Sex, Men, Dominance

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1989). “Toward a Feminist Theory of the State”, p.113, Harvard University Press

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

  Eve Ensler

  World, Body, Ifs

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• No one statement wrested from its context is a sufficient warrant for actions that plainly controvert other commands. How excellent a thing it would be if the whole Church of Christ had learned that no law of life may be based upon an isolated text. Every false teacher who has divided the Church, has had, "it is written" on which to hang his doctrine.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Teacher, Law, Church

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• The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain, fear, or hunger. The madness of the thing is that when such facts are present, we circle, buzz, writhe, and whirl, trying to get the I out of the experience...
  Sanity, wholeness and integration lie in the realisation that we are not divided, that man and his present experience are one, and that no separate I or mind can be found .... [Life] is a dance, and when you are dancing, you are not intent on getting somewhere. The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.

  Alan Watts

  Pain, Real, Lying

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