Divisiveness Quotes

Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives mean people a reason, it gives them a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue.

To make even fewer friends try talking about politics as much as you talk about yourself.

The stupidity of tribalism has made politics primarily about partisan identities, not persuasion or policy. The screamers on the right and left fuel one another. In a nation as big as ours, there is always someone somewhere saying something stupid—but tribalism takes this fact as its lifeblood. And it’s the excuse for otherwise civic-minded Americans to ignore the nuts in their own party and obsess only over the nuts in the other party. We’re tempted to think that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. It takes a genuine leader to remind us that most of the time, the enemy of our enemy is still a jackass.

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

Our citizens never hesitate to take sides against one another, whether it's Democrats versus Republicans, Coke drinkers opposed to Pepsi enthusiasts or Yankee loyalists against Red Sox aficionados.

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.

The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side.

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

I think you should be able to have a press conference without having reporters key in on certain divisive issues.

I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.

Too many prefer to cling to the thing that divides us, and precious few are willing to come together over the thing that unites us.

For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.

It bothers me when I look at Israeli society, on the divisiveness in it, and to polarization. I'm not just talking about left-right... but how individuals behave towards each other.

… a people which desires freedom but knows no order … a people which on one day elects its rulers, on the next begins to mistrust them and on the third condemns them; a people devoid of any spirit of fraternity or concession; a people among whom may be discovered a hundred different factions and engaged in abusing without the spirit of moderation …

Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

I am glad to see one real American here

How can you challenge an incumbent and not be divisive?

We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.

The world will never come together and say, 'We are one.'

Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the middle.

Early on I learned to question everything. But I feel like everything is so divisive right now. Going against the grain would be to not be divisive and be inclusive. That's the disruptive way to go about it.

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.