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“The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.”

World Bigs Differences Poor Class Rich Middle Middle Class Polarization

Author:Pope Francis

“The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.”

People Two Young Female Males Stereotype Polarization Male Female

Author:Susan Sontag

“Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between.”

Thinking Truth Lying Unhappy Tendencies Compromise Polarization

Book:Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader

Source: Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader

“There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.”

Too Much Surrender Stakes Polarization Polarizing

Author:Brad Henry

“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.”

“I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.”

Thinking Audacity Polarization

Author:Lee Daniels

“We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is not something to play, because race is a very dangerous political plaything.”

Knows Should Ends Play Political Lying Race Dangerous Cards Race Car Polarization End Of The Road

Author:Thomas Sowell

“You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences in racial and ethnic polarization on campus.”

Needs Whole Courses Consequence Features Department Resentment Preaching Campus Victimhood Polarization

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me.' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no middle ground to the moneychangers in the Temple. One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.”

Sides Christ Middle Devil Angel Conviction Statements Classic Temples Luke Middle Ground Polarization

Book:Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals

Source: Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals

“The founders of the United Nations expected that member nations would behave and vote as individuals after they had weighed the merits of an issue - rather like a great, global town meeting. The emergence of blocks and the polarization of the United Nations undermine all that this organization initially valued.”

Individual Nations United Issues Members Vote Organization Towns Meetings Expected Block Behave Merit Founders United Nations Emergence Polarization

Book:Renewing the U.S. commitment to peace: September 26, 1983

Source: Renewing the U.S. commitment to peace: September 26, 1983

“The interesting point is that the polarization is not so much among the public, although there's some of that. The polarization on the immigration issue is really between the elites and the public. In other words, this is not so much a right-left issue, which it is partly.”

Left Interesting Issues Immigration Elites Polarization

Author:Mark Krikorian

“And they are much more skeptical of the very idea of having immigration limits, whereas the public - again, independents and Democrats, as well as Republicans, although not necessarily all in the same proportions - have a much stronger sense of the American government and American law having responsibility to Americans specifically rather than to people around the world. So the polarization is up versus down, not really right versus left.”

“We have to be very cautious not to accept the scam of polarization we see in the media. It is not in fact between secularists and Islamists, it is a battle within the Islamic reference.”

Facts Accepting Media Battle Islamic Cautious Islamists Scams Polarization

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“One of the big problems in America's economic polarization and shrinkage is that pensions can't be paid. So there are going to be defaults on pensions here, just like Europeans are insisting in rolling back pensions. You can look at Greece and Argentina as the future of America.”

Looks Problem Bigs America Economic Paid Rolling Greece Default Pension Big Problems Argentina Insisting Polarization Future Of America Shrinkage

Author:Michael Hudson

“There is a considerable polarization taking place here, increasing the gap between rich and poor. It's most dramatic in Third World countries, of course, but in the rich countries it's also very noticeable.”

World Country Courses Poor Rich Thirds Dramatic Gaps Rich And Poor Third World Polarization Third World Countries Rich Countries

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The degree of polarization that currently exists in Washington is such where I think it's fair to say if I presented a cure for cancer, getting legislation passed to move that forward would be a nail-biter.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Moving Degrees Fairs Cancer Cures Nails Legislation Polarization

Author:Barack Obama

“New York has a tremendous number of people but the quality of its politics is unspeakable. By contrast, in a smaller township, I find there's a great deal of social awareness, less of a sense of powerlessness, less of a polarization of economic life.”

People Social Deals Numbers Quality Economic Awareness New York Contrast Unspeakable Powerlessness Polarization Social Awareness

Author:Murray Bookchin

“The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.”

World Problem Today Courses Causes Ignorance Roots World Today Polarization Root Cause

Author:Maya Angelou

“I think that in the future, as more and more money and wealth goes to the 1 per cent, it's going to polarize into the people who are for and anti-freedom. It's not that they'll have a left and a right wing thing, it's going to be a freedom and anti-freedom polarization, I think.”

People Thinking Left Wealth Wings Cents More Money Right Wing Polarization

Author:Irvine Welsh

“There is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners. The contemporary world, with its open wounds which affect so many of our brothers and sisters, demands that we confront every form of polarization which would divide it into these two camps.”

Ifs World Two Form Evil Brother Demand Wounds Contemporary Temptation Sinner Divides Camps Righteous Brothers And Sisters Polarization Reductionism

Author:Pope Francis

“As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers inside the campaigns, cutting-edge efforts to micro-target voters on Internet social applications, the enormous money flowing through super-PACs, and extreme political polarization.”

“The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.”

“How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the event horizon, from huge tidal forces to variations in time. Personally, I'm voting on it having to do with gravity, either a polarization of the fields themselves or else something related to the time differential." I didn't know physics had become a democracy," Hanan murmered.”

Knows Happens Force Black Democracy Events Fields Huge Physics Things Happen Holes Odd Related Voting Horizon Gravity Variation Black Hole Event Horizon Polarization Odd Things

Author:Timothy Zahn

“When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.”

Source: You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You

“Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many different identities - related not just to religion but also to language, occupation and business, politics, class and poverty, and many others - we can see that the polarization of one can be resisted by a fuller picture. So knowledge and understanding are extremely important to fight against singular polarization.”

“Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.”

War Situation Opinion Groups Civil War Polarization Group Of Friends

Author:Mick Jagger

“I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.”

People Soul America Attention Pay Attention Superficiality Polarization Reductionism

Author:Azar Nafisi

“The depth of the middle class is waning as the polarization of society is in progress.”

Class Progress Middle Depth Middle Class Polarization

Author:Katsuya Okada

“I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.”

Trying Moving Communication Source Agree Moving Forward Streams Keep Moving Harbors Keep Moving Forward Extremist Polarization Bad Thoughts Polarizing

Author:Joichi Ito

“In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.”

Two Today Political Party Growing Majors Competition Decline Political Parties American Politics Ideological Polarization Polarizing Politics Today

Author:Thomas E. Mann

“Labels such as, 'evangelical', 'fundamental', 'charismatic', 'liberal' contribute to polarization and produce a climate of implied or outspoken distrust. Respectful dialogue becomes virtually impossible. What we desperately need to offset this disunity and distrust is a new and cleansing theology of communication.”

“The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.”

Planes Aeroplanes Polarization Rotation Vapour Polarizing Sodium

Author:Pieter Zeeman

“The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them - the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you're sensible, you'll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not get our message across. It condemns us to permanent minority status.”

People Ifs Believe Doe Hell Stupid Movement Messages Doctrine Chiefs Permanent Minorities Sensible Monopoly Skeptical Deficiency Moron Polarization

Author:Carl Sagan

“At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?”

Term Wonder Eras Willingness Polarization

Author:Ron Fournier

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