Chrystia Freeland Quotes

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

In community people remain essentially united in spite of all separating factors, while in society they are essentially separated in spite of all uniting factors.

I think the thing with 'Rise Up,' something that really does bug me, is that America has become very divided.

It's a bit unfair to accuse Obama of dividing the nation when the facts show that it already is.

You either have a civil society or you don't.

Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.

So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us.

I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.

Our greatest political disease -- the disease of thinking that the community is divided into the relatively rich and the relatively idle, and the laborious poor, and that every social and political controversy can be resolved into the question: What side are you on?

There is nothing I dread so much as a division of the Republic into two great political parties, each arranged under its leader and converting measures in opposition to each other.

Without a home there can be no good citizen.

The complex origins of class cleavage in politics are not easily unraveled

In politics … a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

…to make a commonwealth is to divide it into parties, which setteth them at perpetual variance, the one party endeavouring to preserve their eminence and inequality, and the other to attain their equality.

It would be a dreadful calamity to see the nation divided into two parties, one containing the bulk of the property owners and conservative people, the other the bulk of the wageworkers and the less prosperous people generally; each party insisting on demanding much that is wrong, and each party sullen and angered by real and fancied grievances..

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

History shows that populism polarizes society, weakens economies, and undermined representative democracy.

Donald Trump:President of the Divided States of America

The politicians are not the only people who are in their own silos. Many of our citizens only watch or listen to the news that they want to hear, and if there is anything else, they turn it off. We all need to listen to the people who are on the other side.

Some people believe giving more people a voice is driving division rather than bringing us together. More people across the spectrum believe that achieving the political outcomes they think matter is more important than every person having a voice.

I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.

When you have a highly divided society, it's hard to come together to make investments in the common good.

Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.

Politics is, by its nature, not my favorite thing because it's more about dividing people, not bringing them together.

It is uncomfortable seeing how very divisive politics has become.