Group Division Quotes

When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy.

the latent causes of faction [which causes men] to vex and oppress each other.

Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.

Belong purportedly to certain groups say, "We are the people and not the others." That is something that we cannot allow to happen. That is something that I think at the time in the GDR - at the time when we had this in the GDR, where the people stood in the street and said, "We are the people," that is something that filled me with great joy.

I love taxonomies, categories, ways of dividing people into groups.

We're trying to divide groups or decide that some of them are truly victims and some of them are truly aggressors.

White people love playing 'divide & rule'. We should not play their game.

You get the sense that [John] Hughes is so right about the way groups divide and then divide again and then sometimes align and then sometimes break apart. And this idea that Michael Hall's character says, "On Monday, are we going to be friends?" you know, based on this.

The collective influence of you and the other leaders will bring the rest along. If this does not happen, divided interest and loyalty will occur within the group.