Divisive Quotes

I used to think that prizes were demeaning and divisive, until I got one, and now they seem sort of meaningful and real. (On winning a Golden Globe in 2007)

As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.

For the life of me, I don`t understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.

The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.

Georgia was blessed with strong leaders who avoided the kind of divisive distractions that held back most other cities and states in the South.

If there is no avoiding a trial in the Senate, by stepping aside (Clinton could) spare our nation weeks, perhaps months, of divisive debate and repulsive testimony.

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can`t afford divisive polity in India.

The word career is a divisive word. It`s a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

There is something about a political party adopting a particular religious agenda, a sectarian religious agenda, as its own, that is divisive.