Quotes About Factions

In England, Maitland continued to Mary, there were "three factions": the Catholics, the Protestants, and the queen.

People will always make sides," Garp said, "—of everything.

the perspectives offered in the texts may not represent the cultures as wholes (as presupposed by the long-used constructs "Israelite" and/or/versus "Canaanite"). Instead, texts have been taken as representations of the overlapping perspectives of various social factions, strata, and segments: so-called official versus popular; domestic versus public; elite versus peasant; male versus female.

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

This split the scientific community up into factions and promoted conflict. This was Stalin's objective. It permitted him to intervene and take sides whenever deemed necessary

The rare example of thoughtful, studied deliberation occurred in 1787 with the drafting of the U.S. Constitution. Now, events call for the same studiousness, deliberation, and debate on governance at a global scale. If that debate does not occur, events themselves, through those "factions" or what are today known as "special interests," will determine the fundamental goals and principles under which future civilization will be governed.

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

The constitutional machinery of limited and enumerated powers, separation of powers, and checks and balances all aimed to prevent such an "improper or wicked project," and America's vast size, even in 1787, ensured that a multitude of factions—special interests—would bar any single one from tyrannizing over the others.

what did we expect when, even in so-called democratic countries, we have become so selfish and passive, letting factions of tiny, powerful and unaccountable elites dominate both politics and economics? That applies to most leading political parties, even in democracies, whose overriding concerns usually seem to be getting re-elected and protecting big business.

Let us trust God and our better judgment to set us right hereafter. United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.

idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,