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Faction before blood. -- Veronica Roth
Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration. -- Norman Mailer
Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him. -- Samuel Johnson
Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties. -- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remarkable words to be found in any language. -- Moses Finley
We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction. -- Bainbridge Colby
I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction. -- Aaron Eckhart
It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation. -- Lord John Russell
Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. -- John Adams
We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse. -- Jon Meacham
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative. -- Christopher Hitchens
It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult. -- Craig Bruce
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. -- Mitt Romney
Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself. -- Jonah Goldberg
No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea. -- Kim Jong Il
If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work. -- John Podesta
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. -- George Washington
I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate. -- Patti Smith
Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction. -- William Shakespeare
Liberty is to faction what air is to fire... -- James Madison
The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction -- Aristotle
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice. -- Thomas More
I do not belong to any faction, I will fight them all. -- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin. -- Francis Quarles
I'd rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction. -- Veronica Roth
The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man. -- James Madison
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought. -- William Butler Yeats
The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property. -- James Madison
It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. -- James Madison
It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation. -- Lord John Russell
So false is faction, and so smooth a liar, As that it never had a side entire. -- Samuel Daniel
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil. -- John Dryden
Well, half of half our faction.' 'In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,' Lynn says. -- Veronica Roth
The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution. -- James Buchanan
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit. -- Anthony Bourdain
What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating, -- Christopher Hitchens
When you talk about cooperation, it means cooperation between two legal governments, not cooperation between foreign government and any faction within Syria. -- Bashar al-Assad
Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else. -- Hillary Clinton
But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence. -- Veronica Roth
To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction. -- Aristotle
Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. -- James Madison
The appointment of the next Supreme Court justice must be made in the people's interest and in the nation's interest, not in the interest of any partisan faction. -- Patrick Leahy
My parents did love each other. Enough to forsake plans and factions. Enough to defy "faction before blood." Blood before faction--no, love before faction, always. - Tris Prior -- Veronica Roth
The Internet...has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction. -- Gerry Spence
The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of government. -- James Madison
At what point do [progressives] take off our partisan blinders and start wondering whether a very powerful faction of Democrats actually continues to SUPPORT President Bush and the War in Iraq? -- David Sirota
The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects. -- James Madison
One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election. -- Barack Obama
There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead. -- Alexander Pope
My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live. -- Veronica Roth
In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature. -- James Madison
The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society. -- James Madison
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The alternate triumphs of different parties ... make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels. -- George Washington
It is amazing how pretending to be in a different faction changes everything -- even the way I walk. That must be why it's so strange that I could easily belong in three of them. -- Veronica Roth
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