division quotes

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass.

-John, 1st BaronTweedsmuir Buchan
  The Power-House, ch.3,'Tells of a Midsummer Night'.

If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse.But the scale doesn't matter.

- Denis Donoghue
  We Irish.

The division of labor does not present individuals to one another, but social functions.

- EŁ  mile Durkheim
  The Division of Labor in Society (translated by George Simpson,1933).

There is a growing division in our comparatively prosperous society between the South and the North and Midlands, which are ailing, that cannot be allowed to continue. There is a general sense of tension. The old English way might be to quarrel and have battles, but they were friendly. I can only describe as wicked the hatred that has been introduced, and which is to be found among different types of people today. Not merelyan intellectual but a moral effort isrequired toget rid of it.

-Stockton
  Maiden speech as the Earl of Stockton (60 years after first entering the House of Commons), House of Lords,13 Nov.

The division of labour is nothing but the alienated establishment of human activity.

- Karl Heinrich Marx
  Collected in T B Bottomore (trans and ed) Early Writings (1964), p.181.

It may be divided into three parts; in one you cannot hear, in another you cannot see, and in the third you can neither see nor hear. I remember once sitting alone in the third divisionand never before or since have I had such a profound feeling of the power of solitude.

- Christopher pseudonym of  JohnWilson North
  Of the Theatre Royal, Glasgow.'Noctes  Ambrosianae', no.64, in Blackwood's Magazine, Nov.

   What is our life? a play of passion; Our mirth the music of division; Our mothers' wombs the tiring-houses be Where we are dressed for this short comedy. Heaven the judicious sharp spectator is, That sits and marks still who doth act amiss; Our graves that hide us from the searching sun Are like drawn curtains when the play is done. Thus march we, playing, to our latest rest, Only we die in earnestthat's no jest.

- Sir Walter Raleigh
  'On the Life of Man'.

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity and judgement with which it is any where directed, as applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.

- Adam Smith
  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.1.

The deep division of prodigious breasts, The solemn slope of mighty limbs asleep.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne
  Poems and Ballads (2nd edn),'AveAtqueVale', stanza 6.

There was a heated division of opinion in the lobbies during the interval but a small conservative majority took the view that it might be as well to remain in the theatre.

- Kenneth Tynan
  Reviewing the play The Glorious Days.

Instead of this absurd division into sexes, they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

- Evelyn Arthur StJohn Waugh
  Decline and Fall, pt.2, ch.7.