Quotes About Faction

It is unhealthy to have one of the two main parties paralyzed by internal conflict. So, it's in all of our interests for the Democratic Party to rid itself of the cancer of its democratic socialist faction.

I went and campaigned for Ken Cuccinelli and did a fund-raiser for Ken Cuccinelli. He's not from my faction of the Republican Party, but you know what? When the nominee is chosen, we have got to come together, or we will never lead.

Sports-entertainment has provided me with many blessings, but nothing was ever more unpredictable and fun than hanging with Ric Flair, Barry Windham, Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard, who, in my opinion, are the greatest incarnation of The Four Horsemen and the most important faction to ever step into the ring.

The fastest-growing faction, comprising 40 percent of all Klan members, came from just three states—Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois

This was not a war of nation versus nation, this was brother against brother in the most civilized cities on earth. To read Thucydides is to see our own world in microcosm. It's the study of how democracies destroy themselves by breaking down into warring factions, the Few versus the Many.

Faction is a dangerous thing—presenting readers, viewers, and listeners with a fictitious account and making them think that it is true.

requetés (the Carlist militia)

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

The Dictionary's definitions of 'Whig' and 'Tory' are well known. 'Whig' is 'the name of a faction', whereas 'Tory' is 'one who adheres to the ancient constitution of the state, and the apostolical hierarchy of the Church of England, opposed to a Whig'. This leaves one in little doubt of Johnson's political allegiance.

The oftener the choice fell upon old men, the oftener it became necessary to repeat it, and the more the trouble of such repetitions became sensible; electioneering took place; factions arose; the parties contracted ill blood; civil wars blazed forth; the lives of the citizens were sacrificed to the pretended happiness of the state; and things at last came to such a pass, as to be ready to relapse into their primitive confusion

Enemigo de cuanto lleva el nombre de partido, facción o cábala, jamás he esperado nada bueno de las personas que a ellos pertenecen.

I will not allow continued planned street violence between rival factions to take place on the streets of Portland.

What had begun as a feud of the kind that had always existed in the Republic—indeed, had formed the essence of its politics—was now spreading a contagion of bitterness and antagonism far beyond the ranks of the two rival factions.

In this new hall the factions regroup in their old places. Legendre the butcher bawls out a Brissotin: "I'll slaughter you!" "First," says the deputy, "have a decree passed to say that I am an ox.

Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.

No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that wish you were on the other side.

There will always be, within a party, people who backed one candidate versus people who backed another, and there will be factions in the party, and there's always a little glee faction looking at the difficulty of the other faction.

Do you encounter a great deal of . . . factionalism in your area of the colony?

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Vicious fights among socialist and leftist factions are a recognized feature of the history of socialism.

Already several of the lords were defecting from Moray and joining her camp.

Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.

(Liberty) is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyme