Partition Quotes

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The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever.

So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.

For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world.

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.

After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the time of partition in 1947, he quipped, then I guess Pakistan would have won.

We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

I was in Lahore before the partition, so I don't believe that a border can truly separate Punjab. I still think of it as one.

Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.

only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.

Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it'll soon happen elsewhere.

The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy

European anti-Semitism goes much further back than to the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948. It even goes further back than the Holocaust.

Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'?

In things spiritual, there is no partition, no number, no individuals. How sweet is the oneness-unearth the treasure of Unity.

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.

I'll grant the random access to my heart, Thoul't tell me all the constants of thy love; And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove And in our bound partition never part.

Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting.

Had partition beencarried out, the history of our people would have been different and six millionJews in Europe would not have been killed---most of them would be inIsrael

Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.

Maybe that's the thing I'd been missing about love. You don't withhold it or partition it out when it's deserved. You can't control it like that.

I turned to the Partition experiences, which were churning in my mind. Then came my first novel Train to Pakistan.

You cannot have partition only on political bases or geographic bases. It should be social first of all when the communities do not live with each other.

There must still be room for the falling note, of course. Even in an undying world there are times when beauty passes from sight, or love passes from the heart, and we feel the sorrow of partition.

No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.

Partition memory is particularly pliable. Within it, the act of forgetting, either inevitably or purposefully, seems to play as much a part as remembering itself.

Memorialization is not a passive practice but an active conversation.