"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."

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Source : Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.141, Vintage

Molly Ivins

#Country Quotes #Winning Quotes #Talking Quotes

“The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.”
“If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.”
“The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it creates a condition where the shift in the world becomes possible.”
“Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.”
“I liked a lot of alternative and I like punk stuff.”
“In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives and frequently does.”

Source : "The Hazards of Psychiatric Diagnosis" by Dr. Peter Breggin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.
“Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence?”

Source : Susan Howe (2007). “My Emily Dickinson”, p.11, New Directions Publishing
“Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.”

Source : Ben Jonson, George Chapman, John Marston (2014). “Eastward Ho!”, p.85, A&C Black

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