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Separation Quotes

Where lines get drawn, and argued.

These separation quotes open with a flat rejection of any split between creative work and one's own politics, then pivot to the fiercer debate over Change and church-state separation.

State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.

Quotes by Adam Cohen

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.

Abraham Lincoln

I don't believe that there is a separation between art and political consciousness.

Quotes by Yasmine Hamdan

It is written that there shall be a separation, and the sheep shall be separated from the goats. The other preachers have the sheep; I have the goats. And I have a few sheep among my goats, but they are...

Quotes by Sojourner Truth

Change Quotes

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is...

Quotes by Simone Weil

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Quotes by Simone Weil

In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.

Quotes by Sharon Salzberg

The bedrock of this country are immigration and, really, a great separation between church and state.

Quotes by Shahid Khan

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

Quotes by Sean Hannity

Distance Quotes

There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my deeper work.

Quotes by Richard Avedon

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.

Quotes by Recep Tayyip Erdogan

One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.

Quotes by Ray Stannard Baker

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.

Quotes by Ralph Nader

We have a separation of state and church. The laws of the country are not subject to the Koran.

Quotes by Pim Fortuyn

Emotion Quotes

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

Quotes by Neville Marriner

In the separation of the human species from nature, life goes awry.

Quotes by Michael Frome

The economic basis on which Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish nationalists made the case for separation was based on an oil price much higher than it is at the moment, so there will be no case for it.

Quotes by Michael Gove

I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state.

Quotes by Michael Badnarik

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

Quotes by Louis Garrel

Loss Quotes

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

Quotes by Liz Smith

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the main debate in these separation quotes?
Most center on the split between religious institutions and government, with speakers disagreeing sharply about whether that boundary is genuinely part of the founding law.
Is there a quote linking art and separation?
Yes, one rejects the idea that creative work and a person's own politics should be kept apart, arguing they're naturally connected.
Do any quotes defend church-state separation directly?
One calls the notion that religion and government must stay entirely apart a fallacy, arguing reporters keep repeating it to discourage Christians from voicing beliefs.
Do any quotes dispute that separation is constitutional?
Yes, more than one voice disagrees strongly, insisting that idea was never actually spelled out in the nation's founding document.
What page connects to this separation debate?
Since the topic often centers on shifting boundaries, our Change quotes collection touches similar ground.

More than one voice here disputes that the concept ever appeared in the founding document at all, framing the whole idea as more Loss of nerve than settled law.