When China had a planned economy our material circumstances were not rich but our society was much more peaceful and stable. We didn't have the polarization between rich and poor we are seeing today.
Quotes about polarization (16 Quotes)
There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
Political leaders need to be sending the message to their supporters that the results of the election should be respected. And once there is a winner, he will have to reach out quickly to his opponents and bridge the polarization that is Haiti.
Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.
A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, ... When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness, its potential, my heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization, less finger-pointing, less bitterness, less mindless partisanship.
I think it's reasonable to assume that these factors are not independent. It's important to understand how they interact and also to see if we can determine their relative importance. This is a very polarized field, in terms of supporting or not supporting the role of climate versus other factors. We don't want to contribute to the polarization, which I think is very unproductive in terms of the science. I hope we can move from this sort of debate into a more constructive one about interactions and relative roles of all the factors that may be contributing to the resurgence of malaria.
You saw the polarization of the community last night. It's racial polarization, clearly. It appears to the minority community that my call to the board (for Thompson to leave) is one more piece of evidence that we have racial problems.
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.
I think this is going to be probably the nastiest campaign we've ever seen from both sides because of the polarization that exists in politics today, ... This Week.
I think there are a lot of good ideas there. I think, again, progress has been impeded by the polarization of the issue. And we need to look at some short-term actions that we could take to improve the system, to start helping people have health care be more affordable and accessible, while working on a longer term solution which takes time, it takes consensus, it takes not worrying about who gets the credit.
The polarization in Iran is clear and probably will grow. This is the kind of environment that can bring more tensions.
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.
The polarization and animosity were far deeper on the eve of the Civil War than it's ever been. The 'red state-blue state' divisions of today referring to the 2000 presidential election where maps denoted in blue states that backed Democrat Al Gore and in red for Republican George W. Bush or the cultural wars over abortion, gay rights or other issues are far more superficial than the events of the 1850s.
We have problems ahead of us. I will not hide the fact that the management issues are very difficult and we face a polarization of the membership.
I tell you, the great divide is still with us, the awful split, the Us and Them. Like a rubber band tautened to the snapping point, the polarization of the sexes continues, because we lack the courage to face our likenesses and admit to our real need.
The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.