Divisive Quotes

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

As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.

The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.

A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.

I don't think there's anything divisive about me.

For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.

Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.