Barry Levinson Quotes

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

A nation divided against itself cannot stand.

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

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

There's a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country.

There cannot be a greater Judgment befall a Country than such a dreadful Spirit of Division as rends a Government into two distinct People, and makes them greater Strangers and more adverse to one another, than if they were actually two different Nations.

I would like to caution you about the use of the word “balance.” …. It a red-hot word that is divisive.

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.

I think partisanship is probably the greatest problem in Washington, D.C.

Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.

I think America has always been polarized.

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.

The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.

Divisiveness is not good for the people.

Society is at odds with itself.

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.

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

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

The issues of the day have never seemed more complicated, and yet the conversations over how to solve them increasingly resemble cars passing down a divided highway. Whizzing by without a glance.

Each side had its uninformed fanatics. And each side had political leaders who fanned the flames with their rhetoric.

Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.

There used to be a civility. Today, members of Congress would rather destroy another member than compromise.

We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.

We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.

Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.