John Dos Passos Quotes

The extremes of society are being driven further and further apart.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.

The more borders we have, the more quarrels, the more wars. That's one way to think about borders - they're trouble.

Society is at odds with itself.

You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

Something there is that does not love a wall.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a convent with death and an agreement with hell.

Europe is not America; one of the reasons for the fragmentation and individualism of American life is that it is a vast country. In Europe with its much higher population density and planning controls, the rules have to be different. We are condemned to share—the rich cannot ignore the poor, the indigenous cannot ignore the immigrant—but that does not mean people are always happy to share

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.

A nation divided against itself cannot stand.

The country was made without lines of demarcation and it is nobody's business to create them.

Poor children fare worse than rich children on just about everything that social scientists measure.

Every kingdom divided against itself shall be desolated.

The separation of the West from the United States is inevitable

Why is this polarization in America? Why is there these very different views about the world? Part of it is that there are very different worlds that people are inhabiting.

American and Chinese civilizations are antagonistic; they cannot live and thrive and both survive on the same soil. One or the other must perish.

A border is not only a separation; it’s a connection.

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

Donald Trump is trying to build a wall. I'm trying to burn walls down and build more bridges.

Brexit has divided the country. It has divided political parties. And it has divided families too.

Clearly, on a visceral human front, I oppose any wall, anywhere, between any people - period.

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

This country was seriously divided.

The things that divide us are stronger than the things that unite us.