Genesis P-Orridge Quotes

Divisiveness is not good for the people.

Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!

He that is not with me is against me.

… irrepressible conflict

Look at what the divisiveness of Brexit has done to the U.K.

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

False dichotomies are often at the heart of discord.

Keep your enemies in front of you.

Enemies are so stimulating.

They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two.

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.

The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

If you had no enemies, you had no fun.

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

Each side had its uninformed fanatics. And each side had political leaders who fanned the flames with their rhetoric.

Humans are one another’s enemies

It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.

Divisiveness is the only thing that sells today. Comity dies not sell. Civility does not sell.

There is no little enemy.

Populism is an ideology that separates society into two homogeneous and antagonist groups.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.

For some people, it's impossible to escape binaries.