Quotes About Factionalism

political war was to be the rule, not the exception, in American life. "The country is so totally given up to the spirit of party, that not to follow blindfold the one or the other is an inexpiable offense," Adams wrote during Jefferson's first term.12

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

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Ce sera toujours un pays de factions, de désordre, de passe-droits, de népotisme, de corruption. Mais c'est aussi le pays de la douceur de vivre, de la chaleur humaine, de la générosité. Et de tes amis les plus vrais.

Democrats hate Democrats most of all.

Far more telling was how he became a divisive issue among Republicans and helped to split the party in 1912 over several issues. One

The relativists' stance is extremely condescending: it treats a complex society as a monolith, obscures the conflicts within it, and takes its most obscurantist factions as spokespeople for the whole.

If you look at all those terrorist groups - I'm talking, going back, Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Nusra, al-Qaeda, ISIS - they're all proxy armies in an Islamic civil war.

Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure.

At least for a moment we all saw, I think, that the danger of pluralism is that it becomes factionalism, and that if factions grind their separate axes too vociferously, something mutual, precious, and human is in danger of being drowned out and lost.

I conclude where I began, I was elected by the people of Australia to do a job. I was not elected by the factional leaders of Australia, of the Australian Labor Party to do a job - though they may be seeking to do a job on me, that's a separate matter. The challenge therefore is to honour the mandate given to me by the Australian people.

Once a free people have reached this point, Machiavelli concluded, there is no hope left. Their empire may expand, as Rome's did under the emperors. The wealth can continue to pour in. The arts may flourish; the political factionalism makes for dramatic entertainment, while people ignore the underlying rot. But such a society is doomed, unless a major crisis forces a change in its thinking.

I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.

It is a horrible thing to have to enter into the details of inter-party polemics; it is like diving into a cesspool.

We must stop the division among us. We must stop factionalism. We must embrace unity; we must embrace working together, because if we are divided, we will not be able to win in 2019.

But even amid such stirring events, those two scourges of Burmese politics, factionalism and jealousy, began to cast their shadow.

en la política real, el bando del bien no existe.

All that will be left are polarized groups, seeking their own interests.

Partisanship has gotten worse and worse.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.