Societal Divide Quotes

The extremes of society are being driven further and further apart.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Think about the things that have improved our lives the most over the past century - medical advances, the transportation revolution, huge increases in consumer goods, dramatic improvements in housing, the computer. The people who created these things - the doers - are not popular heroes. Our heroes are the talkers who complain about the doers.

In a world of increasing grey areas, we are becoming more and more entrenched in black and white positions.

Not every American belongs to the cognitive elite. Not every American is equipped by nature or nurture to accelerate into a Third Wave Information Age.

[People] think that they run the world. They think this election's an aberration. They think that [Donald] Trump is subhuman and a gigantic accident and that they're all threatened.

The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.

I expected to find a contest between a government and a people: I found two nations (French and English) warring in the bosom of a single state: I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races.

Foreign journalists writing about Turkey like to focus on the most fundamental divide in Turkish society: the rift between religious conservatives and secularists.

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

I don't think many people would disagree that the world is fractured.

The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

This country was seriously divided.