Partition Quotes

43 quotes by 40 authors

After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the… — Sam Manekshaw
The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds. — Mark Twain
The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches… — Francis Bacon
Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'? — Henry Maudsley
The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist… — Czeslaw Milosz
The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be… — Menachem Begin
I was in Lahore before the partition, so I don't believe that a border can truly separate Punjab. I still think of it as one. — Yash Chopra
The same rule that teaches the propriety of a partition between the various branches of power, teaches us likewise that this partition ought to be… — Alexander Hamilton
To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in… — James Madison
And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his… — Plato
Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle… — Francis Parkman
Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge,… — Helene Cixous
There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist if… — Gerry Adams
National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering. — Park Geun-hye
When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and… — Kenneth G. Wilson
Maybe that's the thing I'd been missing about love. You don't withhold it or partition it out when it's deserved. You can't control it like… — Penelope Douglas
...she felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition… — Virginia Woolf
For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world. — Marc Chagall
What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land… — Shimon Peres
Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding… — Regis Debray

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