Rory Kinnear Quotes

Society is at odds with itself.

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.

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

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Each settlement was a little world by itself. They remained as much divided in their interests and affections as Christians and Turk.

Pat Buchanan likes to say we're in a culture war. The Civil War was a culture war, and brothers killed brothers. I wonder if they avoided dinner conversation about politics. What if this culture war turned into a real war? I'd look back on that dinner and wish that I'd ordered a side of argument

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

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

It bothers me when I look at Israeli society, on the divisiveness in it, and to polarization. I'm not just talking about left-right... but how individuals behave towards each other.

Donald Trump is a divisive name in a locker room.

It is uncomfortable seeing how very divisive politics has become.

Look at what the divisiveness of Brexit has done to the U.K.

This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.

When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

I always think extremism is basically a reaction out of fear. What we seem to be experiencing is polar extremism that keeps people from coming together.

People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.

You ever notice that? Any time you see two groups of people who really hate each other, chances are good they're wearing different kind of hats. Keep an eye on that, it might be important.

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

Politics is about divisions. Wherever you come in on the subject, there are divisions.

The struggle between right and left rips us apart.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

A thing that really troubles me about a more polarized society is that you stop having a sense of society and citizenship.

Identity politics preaches a splintering of one large, collaborative group into competing vindictive ones - resulting in new, angry tribes whose central thesis is to not cooperate.

Modern media has a real tendency to focus on the divisions rather than the commonalities.

We are a nation divided, but that's what makes us, in a way.