Benny Gantz Quotes

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.

We have seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty. At times, it can seem like the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together. Argument turns too easily into animosity. Disagreement escalates into dehumanization. Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.

We are a divided nation in the worst sense of the word, and we don't hear the other side.

There is no room any more for the divisive agenda which has been sought to be foisted on the common man.

Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.

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

Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.

I feel like we'll forever live in a country that's divided... Divided by race... Divided by love and hate.

We're segregating ourselves because we're afraid we're going to offend each other.

In America, we have a divided nation. We have a very divided nation.

politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

Whether that's racism, whether it's bigotry, whether it's gender inequality - whatever it is, it's all stemming from "me against you." And, like, how do you stop it? I just want to do my little part in helping try to stop it.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.

Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in.

It's quite easy for schisms to develop in societies, in villages, cities or countries.

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

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

I come from a fragmented society. A country proud to serve as a bridge between Europe and Asia yet unable to bridge its own differences.

Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.

In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.

I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.