Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion. — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
The depth of the middle class is waning as the polarization of society is in progress. — Katsuya Okada Copy Share Image
My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization. — Bernice King Copy Share Image
The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Any factor that breeds polarization will worsen policy, and thus cause lower growth.” — William Easterly Copy Share Image
Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between. — Gayle Rubin Copy Share Image
The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour. — Pieter Zeeman Copy Share Image
America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Americans have become more atomized by education, income, and political leanings. That polarization has meant sharply increased antipathy toward people with different… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
New York has a tremendous number of people but the quality of its politics is unspeakable. By contrast, in a smaller township,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The degree of polarization that currently exists in Washington is such where I think it's fair to say if I presented a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“My Subaru friends are upstanding members of the Creative Class. They also for burnt Democrats. As it turns out, Republicans in their… — Julie Sedivy Copy Share Image
We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
With the polarization of points of view around significant political and social issues, sports is a place where people can sort of… — John Skipper Copy Share Image
If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness,… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
It's not uncommon for revolutions to stem from a radicalized group just outside the circle of power. That's what the French Revolution… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“The polarization is such that the conservatives on this side have their prayer meeting and their choir meeting. And the liberals on… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
There is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me.' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
I don't think polarization is some kind of grand distraction. It's real. People have different commitments, believe in different things and principles,… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“See the system. When you find yourself stuck in an oversimplified polarized conflict, a useful first step is to try to become… — Peter T. Coleman Copy Share Image
The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
“Polarization is just one of many ways group membership can change an individual. Perhaps the most striking effect of group membership is… — Alexandra Robbins Copy Share Image
power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
“The big mistake of modern media has been this notion of balance for balance's sake. That the left is just as violent… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization. — Brad Henry Copy Share Image
The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Our polarization, and the increasing reality that we simply don't know each other, makes it too easy to settle for dislike and… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
We have to be very cautious not to accept the scam of polarization we see in the media. It is not in… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
It bothers me when I look at Israeli society, on the divisiveness in it, and to polarization. I'm not just talking about… — Benny Gantz Copy Share Image
When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“There are not enough purple states. No one votes in primaries, except the most ideological. And big money comes in to support… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
“When polarization confronts the United States’ Madisonian check-and-balance political system, the result is devastating. – Francis Fukuyama” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political… — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
“Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another's point of view, but instead were more and more enclosed in our own… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image