Quotes about separation
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“The fact that you can only find the monuments of Jesus next to the church shows how the state has separated itself from religion.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Religion

“When the give-and-take loop is interrupted for so long, one cannot expect that link to stay attached. This will result in separation or even divorce in the marriage.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Marriage

“Whenever you become separated from God, you must think about it in the spiritual way, and not on a physical level.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

God, Way, Thinking

“I do not separate between work and life.”

Helmut Lang (artist) (1956) Austrian artist and fashion designer

Nick Compton, Wallpaper* January 2017, p. 134

Life

“I personally believe that politics and the economy can be and should be separated.”

Ren Zhengfei (1944) Chinese businessman

Interview with CNN (November 26, 2019)

Personality

“Nothing is more important than self-respect in our life. It hurts a lot if someone hurts our self-respect. It seems as if we have no value in their eyes, we are torn apart completely and we separate ourselves from the world, but still our self-respect does not allow us to live peacefully throughout life.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

Life, World, Hurt

“There have been moments where I laughed at my own family's culture, though it's hard to separate out whether something funny is cultural, or just my grandma specifically.”

Lulu Wang (1983) Asian-American filmmaker

As quoted in "The Farewell writer-director Lulu Wang on the joys of laughing at human nature" in The Verge (17 July 2019) https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/17/20696611/the-farewell-writer-director-lulu-wang-interview-awkwafina

Family, Grandma

“Solitude is separate experience.”

Alice Meynell (1847–1922) English publisher, editor, writer, poet, activist

"Solitude", p. 17
The Spirit of Place and Other Essays (1899)

Solitude

“Many people operate as if there are two separate and equal sources of information—the self and others, where the number of others is irrelevant. The result is a “truly” false-consensus effect in the context of knowing one’s own plus a certain number of others’ responses.”

Robyn Dawes (1936–2010) American psychologist

Source: Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally (2001), Chapter 8, “Connecting Ourselves with Others, Without Recourse to a Good Story” (p. 148)

People, Falseness

“Nations will for a long time insist upon a large measure of self-government, but when they begin to see the benefits which accrue from each successive international co-operative development, they will finally grasp the new principle of synthesis, and the age of separation will be over for ever.”

Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist

Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter II Planning a Model World

Age, Time, Success

“We Communists must not separate our study of theory from our ideological self-cultivation. We must remould ourselves and temper our proletarian ideology not only in the practice of revolution but in the study of Marxism-Leninism.”

Liu Shaoqi (1898–1969) 2nd President of the People's Republic of China (1898-1969)

Source: "How to Be a Good Communist - 4. The Unity of Theoretical Study and Ideological Self-Cultivation" https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/liu-shaoqi/1939/how-to-be/ch04.htm (July 1939)

Study

“[People].. would have become aware of the purpose and presence of God in every part of creation and in themselves, to such an extent that they would be incapable of separating ‘religion’ from science, education or government. The integration would have become complete.”

Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist

Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter IV The Spiritual Cabinet

God, People, Education, Religion

“The nation has come to the end of its psychological endurance. Many people are beginning to despair. Now it is not days but hours that separate us from a national catastrophe. Honesty compels one to ask the question: Did things have to come to this?”

Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923–2014) Polish military officer and politician

Source: Excerpts of Martial law speech (14 December 1981)

People, Question, Despair

“It wasn’t a city anymore, it was a collection of broken places separated by war without politics or acquisition so not war at all really but something more pathological.”

China Miéville Embassytown

Source: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 18 (p. 238)

War

“The fact that we have these fear mongrels. These people that are trying to separate us, and it's just not okay. It's just not okay.”

Jussie Smollett (1982) American actor, singer, director and photographer

14 February 2019 spoken immediately after the preceding sentence which received mass-coverage, this sentence was largely ignored by the media except for a Bean and Biscuits upload https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV36aUwOktQ used by The Unz Report https://www.unz.com/isteve/jussie-speaks-out-against-the-fear-mongrels-trying-to-separate-us/ <br class="br">this was likely because Jussie said "mongrels" when he probably intended to say "mongerers"

People, Fear

“The seeker's real approach to God means his preoccupation with afflictions appearing on the way to Him. Tribulations in separation from God is to be treated as a boon granted by God to His elect.”

Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (1173–1235) Indian Sufi

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 263

God, Way, Affliction, Appearance

“Detachment from worldly things is the most essential qualification required for a true dervish. His separation from everything, including his own self is the only way for the realization of kingship with God.”

Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (1173–1235) Indian Sufi

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 263

God, Way

“This is a historic day for all of us. Anyone who thinks the people of Eritrea and Ethiopia are separated is considered as naïve from now on.”

Isaias Afwerki (1946) President of Eritrea

Source: Isaias Afwerki (2018) cited in: " Eritrea’s leader visits Ethiopia as dramatic thaw continues https://apnews.com/article/ethiopia-ap-top-news-abiy-ahmed-isaias-afwerki-eritrea-e76cdb2ec08548ba98877d9d9dfbe835" in AP Times, 15 July 2018.

People, Thinking

“The models... (I) separated and divided powers; (II) implied limitations of government; (III) settled expectations; (IV) governmental regularity (V) preferred rights; (VI) equal protection; and (VII) structural justice.”

Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor

American Constitutional Law (1978), Approaches to Constituitonal Analysis

Justice

“Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb book Skin in the Game

Source: Skin in the Game (2018), p. 12

Personality

“The highest degree of knowledge. To become a Buddha one has to break through the bondage of sense and personality; to acquire a complete perception of the REAL SELF and learn not to separate it from all otherselves; to learn by experience the utter unreality of all phenomena of the visible Kosmos foremost of all; to reach a complete detachment from all that is evanescent and finite, and live while yet on Earth in the immortal and the everlasting alone, in a supreme state of holiness.”

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831–1891) occult writer

Buddha (Sk.). Lit., “The Enlightened.”
The Theosophical Glossary (1892)

Knowledge, Sense, Learning, Personality

“[A] Bill of Rights directed against federal abuses was thought necessary in addition to the separation and division of powers...”

Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor

Source: American Constitutional Law (1978), Approaches to Constituitonal Analysis

“If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher

Understanding, Problem

“The stick-together families are happier by far
Than the brothers and the sisters who take separate highways are.
The gladdest people living are the wholesome folks who make
A circle at the fireside that no power but death can break.
And the finest of conventions ever held beneath the sun
Are the little family gatherings when the busy day is done.”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

Source: Just Folks (1917), The Stick-Together Families, stanza 1.

Death, People, Family, Business

“I know a little of navigation: / War, trade, and piracy, allow, / As three in one, no separation.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe book Faust

Source: Faust, Part 2 (1832), Act V, Scene 3

War

“Living in a bittersweet state, with an intense awareness of life's fragility and the pain of separation, is an underappreciated strength and an unexpected path to wisdom, joy, and especially communion.”

Susan Cain book Bittersweet

Bittersweet, Chapter 8 at pp. 183-4

Life, Wisdom, Pain, Joy

“A proper theory of morality depends upon the separation of intentions from results.”

Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) American evolutionary biologist

Source: Full House (1996), Chapter 14, “The Power of the Modal Bacter” (p. 195)

Dependency

“The heaviest burden of our human side is not sin. Because heaven or hell is a choice that we create ourselves. The heaviest burden of our humanity is the ego. how can we defeat and subdue the personal ego. Sin is just a condition and consequence of the wrong life choices. It is impossible for us to separate that consequences from the interests of our personal egos.”

Titon Rahmawan

#ego

Life, Hell, Personality

“Those who are wise will understand that tolerance is one of the main values taught in any religion. Differences in religion and belief should not separate humans, but should instead unite humans in universal good values.”

Titon Rahmawan

Religion, Understanding, Universe

“Life is a blessing for those who are able to appreciate it, and a misfortune for those who fail to make sense of it.

Some know what they are looking for and fighting for. Others just live without any pretensions.

But life forces everyone to struggle in their own way. Some succeeded, some failed.

Some end in bitter and sad tragedies. Others make life a funny and entertaining comedy.

Everything cannot be separated from the choices they make. It all depends on how they view and interpret their own lives.”

Titon Rahmawan

Life, Sadness, Way, Sense

“Pornography is definitely not a reflection of real life. Accepted or rejected, it will always be at odds. However, sexual expression in pornography is a celebration of the denial of women's dignity. For a man, it is an affirmation of the myth of masculinity to dominate, to rule and to show his might. Conversely, for a woman, sex must be accepted as a form of willingness to be submissive, to submit to the destruction of her own dignity. In pornography there is no love, no passion or drama. There is only manipulation of the body, the mind and the lowly human desire to be satisfied. That humans cannot be separated from animalistic lust.”

Titon Rahmawan

Love, Life, Women, Sex

“The worst thing about death is not uncertainty. The worst thing about death is the certainty that humans will be separated from the light of the true truth as a result of their own arrogance and ignorance.”

Titon Rahmawan

Death, Truth, Light

“I am an individuation of Divinity, an expression of God, a singularization of The Singularity. There is no separation between me and God, nor is their any difference, except as to proportion. Put simply, God and I are one.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

God

“Connecting with those who remind who you are strengthens you, we see unity is the only truth—separation is the only illusion.”

Ralph Smart

Truth