Polarized Society Quotes

These days everything is discussed in terms of political partisan perspective including the weather—especially the weather.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

Governing in a polarized society means, making bipartisan deals.

There is a polarizing and dualistic experience occurring politically and economically in the world, and I believe we are near the peak of a cyclical and truly chaotic time.

In Poland a man must be one thing: white or black, here or there, with us or against us -- clearly, openly, without hesitations. . . . We lack the liberal, democratic tradition rich in all its gradations. We have instead the tradition of struggle: the extreme situation, the final gesture.

A thing that really troubles me about a more polarized society is that you stop having a sense of society and citizenship.

There's never been a time in my life where you had the names the United States and political uncertainty in the same sentence.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

We are a very polarised country.

There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality

We are more polarized. And some of that comes from the people and some of that comes from the media.

By pumping up hyper-partisanship, our country (America) is playing with forces that can easily get out of control. We are giving purpose and cover - and sometimes a sense of purpose - to the crazy among us. We are encouraging a culture of extremism

We've become so polarized we've become paralyzed.

It takes guts in this country to refuse to be a Democrat or a Republican.

I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do.

Why is this polarization in America? Why is there these very different views about the world? Part of it is that there are very different worlds that people are inhabiting.

God, America is a country predicated on listening to everybody. When did we stop listening to one another?

In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.

Britain is perceived as a laughing stock and a mess. It's a very scary and divided place.