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Under New Labour the country is even more unequal than it was under Mrs Thatcher with an ever increasing share of the wealth going to a tiny 1% of the top of society … The social divisions in Britain are hardening and deepening. Adam Curtis, The Trap II: The Lonely Robot, BBC 2007
He [Kissinger] set out to do the very opposite: to fracture the power of the Arab countries by dividing them and breaking their alliances so they would keep each other in check … In reality, the Palestinians were ignored. Adam Curtis, Hypernormalisation, BBC 2016
A predominated economic system: global apartheid whose only certainty is that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. John Pilger, Apartheid Did Not Die, ITV 1998
White people love playing divide and rule. Diane Abbott MP, January 2012
When you have political violence – the youth fighting against the youth for the politicians – then I really feel sick. See, I find none of them really do anything good for the people. It’s divide and rule. Bob Marley
A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum – the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They’re the people who always try to divide rather than unite us. John Avlon
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution. John Adams, letter to Jonathan Jackson 2nd October 1789
The reality of human existence in Ireland over the last few centuries has been dominated by the British Empire. Ireland is the oldest colony in that empire. Marx summed up the nature of that long imperial rule in a single sentence:
‘England has never ruled Ireland in any other way, and cannot rule it in any other way, except by the most hideous reign of terror and the most revolting corruption’. Four hundred years ago Ireland was ‘planted’ with colonists loyal to the British crown. Under the cover of the Protestant religion, armed and equipped by the most powerful force on earth, these colonists made Ireland safe for British landlords. The Irish population was kept in order by consistent and ruthless violence. Paul Foot, article July 1988, ‘Dividing Ireland’
Divided Britain. Daily Mirror headline
The country was divided by the houses of Lancaster and York. Professor Robert Bartlett, The Plantagenets III, BBC 2014
Imperialism is never benign. Michael Wood: The Story of India VI: Freedom, BBC 2012
1947: Great floods of people fled in fear … Up to a million died … Could the partition have been avoided? ibid.
Far from covering himself in glory, Mountbatten’s actions in extracting Britain from India were to leave a devastating legacy. Lord Mountbatten: Hero or Villain? Channel 5 2020
Partition: two days later when the borders were revealed, panic set in. And the full horror of partition was unleashed. In the ensuing weeks, one million people lost their lives, and fifteen million were displaced as people fled across the borders. ibid.
The world is divided up between people who like to watch the sunset and those who don’t. After the Sunset 2004 starring Pierce Brosnan & Woody Harrelson & Don Cheadle & Salma Hayek & Naomie Harris & Chris Penn & Mykelti Williamson & Obba Babatunde & Russell Hornsby & Rex Linn et al, director Brett Ratner, Harrelson to Brosnan
The divided self. R D Laing, schizophrenia book 1960
By dividing the electorate this way we’ll be able to have them spend their energies at struggling amongst themselves on questions that for us have no importance whatsoever. United States Bankers Magazine 1892
Therefore did Heaven divide
The state of man in diverse functions. William Shakespeare, Henry V I ii 183-184, Canterbury to King Henry et al
It did always seem so to us, but now in the division of the kingdoms it appears not which of the Dukes he values most; for equalities are so weighted that curiosity in neither can make choice of either’s moiety. William Shakespeare, The History of King Lear I I @3, Gloucester
There is division,
Although as yet the face of it be covered
With mutual cunning. ibid. II i @18, Kent
Know we have divided
In three our kingdom, and ’tis our first intent
To shake all cares and business off our state. ibid. I i 37-40, Lear
I do perceive here a divided duty. William Shakespeare, Othello I iii 181
It’s time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin’ black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it’s gettin’ to be old and young – not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually ... because there’s so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now. Jimi Hendrix
I think the great divisions in the country at the present moment are between those who are less affluent – our black citizens, Mexican-Americans and those who are poor whites – and the rest of the United States. They feel that they have been disenfranchised. Or that they have no association or identification with the United States government or with our society. That is the division. Robert Kennedy
They keep us divided ... They keep us demoralised ... and they encourage cynicism. Tony Benn
Divide and rule. Early 17th century proverb
Not into male and female – oh no no no no that’s just mere superficial division of minor importance. No, gentlemen, there is another division, another dichotomy. More basic, more profound. At that fateful moment the world was divided into winners and losers. Top men and underdogs. In a word the one up and the one down. Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. Joseph Stalin
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall. Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. Rene Descartes
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. Mark 3:25
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.