Separation Quotations

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.

The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.

Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

You know, Scooter's going to do the first separation burn; I'm going to do the second separation burn.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.

Andy Clark has several books you can find on Amazon, including 'Natural Born Cyborgs' and 'Being There.' I particularly recommend 'Being There' to anybody who still thinks the Cartesian separation of mind and body should be taken seriously.

I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situations - the foreigner, the outsider. The first time I've ever felt like there was no separation between me and the other elements was in music.

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.

I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation between the rapport that we feel when we're in conversation and when we're playing music, it's one in the same.

And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

I like the idea of separation of services. ISPs provide a pipe. Other vendors provide security. Other vendors provide email. When one party controls all the services, it's a 'synergy' for the company, but rarely for the consumer.

Separation is the worst. There's no good way to deal with it, other than to get on the phone and do Skype and try to visit.

I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over in the other direction of separating church and state.

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.

The very idea that you could have separation between mosque and state from Islam's perspective is the imposition on them of Christian practice. Islam doesn't really have a place for state. They are a universalistic faith like Christianity, but they think there is no country that bounds Islam.

Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.

Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.

Ultimately, the court is heading to a doctrine of 'separation of campaign and state.' This doctrine, like separation of church and state or separation of military and civilian authority, is not explicit in the Constitution but flows naturally from its structure and commitment to freedom and democracy.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment.

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

Maintaining boundaries is hard. That's why I strongly prefer the physical separation of work and home.

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'

The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.

I think in some ways I'm quite lucky to be living in London, there's this certain separation from the movie business. In that way, it's been quite easy to separate acting and going back to a normal life.

I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer - a particular kind of prayer in classrooms.

The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal.

We will never allow anybody to separate Taiwan from China.

While we have a Constitution that is very strong in the sense that we are not gonna have a religion that's sanctioned by the government, it doesn't mean that we need to have a separation between government and religion.

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.

When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.

Christians - at least Christians in a liberal democracy - have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule of law; that there must be a separation of church and state.

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

Look, you're on the set for six months, with someone who's rooting to be attracted to you, and you're rooting to be attracted to them. I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing.

The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.

The false separation between living and giving must end.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

must maintain strict protection for civil rights and a clear separation of church and state.

One of our goals during this time is to maintain stability for our employees. Our employees were used to receiving both a 401(k) plan as well as a pension plan. By continuing to offer both, our employees can continue to stay focused and aggressively strive to serve our customers both during and after the separation from Sprint Nextel.

Maybe it's unfair but it's a separation of church and state issue.

Obviously, the best date for Tupelo would be the first part of January. They need to get some separation from Vegas.

I don't find a big separation between foundation work and business work. We want to create a world that works for everyone. Everything is so connected now. If one part of the world has a problem, it hits everybody.

Milosevic is departing and I hope that finally a period of death, separation and evil will end as well. With his death history will be denied the complete judgment and truth about his involvement in this.

She filed for separation no divorce... She came home 2 days later.

Sharon caused a fundamental earthquake in the concept of the peace process. His way was separation and to let the Palestinians stew in their own juices, so to speak ... How this will continue without Sharon is what everyone is asking now.

Sharon wants to maintain the current political status quo so as to accomplish his objectives out of the pullout from Gaza, including boosting settlement construction, and completing the apartheid, separation wall in the West Bank, particularly around the occupied city of Jerusalem.

Separation and divorce can have adverse effects on the health and well-being of children and adults. Past research has shown that divorce is associated with higher rates of mortality, more health problems, and more risky behaviors such as increased alcohol use.

Separation from GM is critical, if they're able to secure an investment-grade rating, that's great news for bond investors.

Separation of power is a biggie to me, and she's trampled it into the ground. This government isn't founded on Ronda's church.

Separation would likely do more harm than good for congressional Republicans. They need to try to rehabilitate the president's political standing, which will have a large bearing on the size of their seat loss in 2006.

There's no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?

Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized to be semiobselete.

I have in fact, I'm now informed, received a letter from the ACCC relating to certain aspects of operational separation and providing certain information,

For years the, quality has been compromised in east Gainesville. I don't think we can go on like that. We can't have a separation in the city. It's got to be all of us working together.

Formula One is a strange world but if you have clear values, you can maintain the separation between truth and fiction. If people praise you, you cannot let it go to your head, because at the next race you could be criticized.

If a family has not been accustomed to separation of parents, then negotiating ... and adding another family can add a little bit of conflict.

But we must not forget that the words proximity, contact, and mutual separation which apply to material bodies do not apply to God.

But the greatest injury of the 'wall' notion is its mischievous diversion of judges from the actual intentions of the drafters of the Bill of Rights. . . . The "wall of separation between church and state" is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.

China, as an example, in 2004 graduated 350,000 engineers and computer science-type people. The United States was under 140,000 and that separation continues.

We suspect that this announcement shows that they think they can't go forward with the deal approved by shareholders. We regard this notion of the separation of control from ownership as absurd.

I always disagreed with the separation of the name and the brand and the person, ... To build on that name and brand is one thing. To divorce the name and the brand from the person was not an approach that I agreed with.

I am for the separation between them and us, so that we can have our land. Let them take the settlers inside their area and put up a barrier 200 meters high if they want.

He hasn't been able to practice. He couldn't get separation or push off.

What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the desire to control resources. We begin with a single culture, and over time the number of individuals within that culture expands.

There is a fundamental reason why this separation should be maintained: if it is not, there can arise a tyranny of one sect, one code of belief. And in such a tyranny, religious minorities will suffer institutionalized degradation of their integrity.

The purpose of the ads is to educate people about the critical importance of separation of church and state.

We transcend the illusions of body and mind, and the separation perpetuated by these illusions. In this dimension, we re-discover the nature of Love for the One Spirit, of which we are all a part.

that could prolong the separation of this child from his father.

Regardless of economic conditions, employers should have severance and separation benefits updated to remain competitive.

I think everyone recognizes that this office was asked for a legal opinion. We view this solely as an issue of separation of powers.

Our judgement is that it would not be wise or fair to ask Congress to make such a consequential decision without evidence that the Indian government was acting on what is arguably the most important of its commitments--the separation of its civilian and military facilities

Nathan the Wise argues that the only way forward lies in transcending notions of separation and embracing our common humanity, both at home and abroad.

I'm still waiting for a judge or anyone to show me anywhere in the Constitution where there's a separation of church and state. We didn't lose; we were robbed.

It is crucial that we recognize the important separation of powers principles that our democracy was founded on, ... There should always be a check on the executive branch's power, the president's power, to take away that most fundamental of liberty interests and that is the government's ability to detain a person, possibly indefinitely.

Most restaurants have clear lines of separation for smoking and non-smoking.

It is my understanding that we almost lost the MULES because of the separation of the department.

Laughter is such a healing thing, and through laughter, we find commonalities with each other. There's a lot of separation in the world, and by creating more things to laugh at, we can create a common ground for open discussion.

Last year I thought there was clearly separation after North Carolina and Illinois. It wouldn't surprise me (if all the top seeds exited before the Final Four).

It is a very important choice we are making together. It's either an agenda for separation or an agenda for affirmation,

Representative government, the supremacy of parliament, the independence of the judiciary, separation of church and state - all this progress in Western thinking came about in this period.

Other reasons might include overeating due to separation anxiety when the child leaves the home, or parents not wanting to criticize their children's eating habits when they are young.