Division Quotes - Page 31

• As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .

  Karl Marx

  People, Jehovah, Bores

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.396, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Real, Europe, Political

  Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) (1962). “Facing the Dictators: The Eden Memoirs”, London : Cassell

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• A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education. The professor responded that German universities would be sufficient to teach the boy addition and subtraction but he would have to go to Italy to learn multiplication and division. Before you smile indulgently, try multiplying or even just adding the Roman numerals CCLXIV, MDCCCIX, DCL, and MLXXXI without first translating them.

  John Allen Paulos

  Son, Boys, Roman Numerals

  John Allen Paulos (2013). “Beyond Numeracy”, p.23, Vintage

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• Have taken Trier with two divisions. What do you want me to do? Give it back?

  George S. Patton

  Taken, Two, Giving

  Reply to a message from Dwight Eisenhower on March 02, 1945. Introduction to "War as I Knew it". Book by George S. Patton, p. 20, 1947.

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• Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Long, Doe

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.103, Vintage

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• I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world.

  Clare Short

  Believe, People, World

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• Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism . ... Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into categories ... human perception is by nature a dualistic phenomenon - which makes the quest for enlightenment an uphill struggle, to say the least.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Struggle, Perception, Enlightenment

  "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid". Book by Douglas Hofstadter, 1979.

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• The error in positivism is that it takes as its standard of truth the contingently given division of labor, that between the science and social praxis as well as that within science itself, and allows no theory that could reveal the division of labor to be itself derivative and mediated and thus strip it of its false authority.

  Theodor Adorno

  Division Of Labor, Errors, Derivatives

  Theodor W. Adorno (2012). “Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords”, p.10, Columbia University Press

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• I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of debates by seeking other dichotomies more appropriate than, or simply different from, the conventional divisions. All dichotomies are simplifications, but the rendition of a conflict along differing axes of several orthogonal dichotomies might provide an amplitude of proper intellectual space without forcing us to forgo our most comforting tool of thought.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Axes, Space, People

  "Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, p. 8, 1987.

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• In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.

  Camille Paglia

  Gay, Order, Political

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.32, Vintage

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• Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual and society. The contradiction between individual principle and social principle disappears.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Essence, Principles, Individualism

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• For one to be free there must be at least two. Freedom signifies a social relation, an asymmetry of social conditions: essentially it implies social difference--it presumes and implies the presence of social division. Some can be free only in so far as there is a form of dependence they can aspire to escape.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Two, Differences, Asymmetry

  Zygmunt Bauman (1988). “Freedom”

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• The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Division Of Labor, Dignity, Conditions

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.133, Routledge

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• What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.

  Michel Foucault

  Action, Madness, Made

  Michel Foucault (2013). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.9, Vintage

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• A law which excludes all dialectic and all reconciliation; which establishes, consequently, both the flawless unity of knowledge and the uncompromising division of tragic existence; it rules over a world without twilight, which knows no effusion, nor the attenuated cares of lyricism; everything must be either waking or dream, truth or darkness, the light of being or the nothingness of shadow.

  Michel Foucault

  Dream, Twilight, Law

  "Madness and Civilization". Book by Michel Foucault, trans. by R. Howard, 1988.

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• For decades the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy — a process that reached its epitome when George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America's defender against gay married terrorists, then announced that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security.

  Paul Krugman

  Cutting, Gay, America

  "Severe Conservative Syndrome". www.nytimes.com. February 12, 2012.

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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

  Remove, Artificial, Divided

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

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• When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we usually call it "commercial capitalism." In such a system goods are conveyed from ares where they are more common (and therefore cheaper) to areas where they are less common (and therefore less cheap). This process leads to regional specialization and to division of labor, both in agricultural production and in handicrafts.

  Carroll Quigley

  Division Of Labor, Common, Process

  "The Evolution of Civilizations". Book by Carroll Quigley, Second Edition 1979, Chapter 8, Canaanite and Minooan Civilizations, p. 241, 1961.

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• The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate division of social advantages. A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role.

  John Rawls

  Rights, Justice, Principles

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from Vnukovo airport. Tanks from the Taman Division stood beneath the dripping trees around Moscow University with their field kitchens and command trucks. This was not a new sight to me: the Soviet tanks had rested like that beneath the trees of the parks in Prague, late in another August twenty-three years before. Now they had invaded and crushed one more country -- their own.

  Neal Ascherson

  Summer, Country, Rain

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• I've got a lot to prove because of the criticism over my weight and moving back down a division.

  Ricky Hatton

  Moving, Criticism, Weight

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• The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Perfection, Firsts, Increase

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.91

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• When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  War, Benefits, Trade

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.429

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• When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.

  John Mearsheimer

  War, Army, Soldier

  John J. Mearsheimer (2002). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics”, p.371, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Faced with such insecurity, labor unions seek a solution in demands for higher wages, shorter hours, pensions, and such things. But this approach takes monopolistic capitalism for granted, and accepts the unnatural division between property and responsibility as permanent. A much more radical solution is apt to come, and this may take either of two forms.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Two

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