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Factions are a sign of illness in a party. -- Ernest Mandel
We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading. -- Thom Gunn
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions. -- Bertolt Brecht
Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off. -- Mary Douglas
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream. -- Thomas Francis Meagher
Factions among yourselves; preferring such To offices and honors, as ne'er read The elements of saving policy; But deeply skilled in all the principles That usher to destruction. -- Philip Massinger
Faction before blood. -- Veronica Roth
There are no factions in the Liberal Party. -- Tony Abbott
Liberty is to faction what air is to fire... -- James Madison
Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally. -- David Frum
Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him. -- Samuel Johnson
In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life. -- Veronica Roth
I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction. -- Aaron Eckhart
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It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation. -- Lord John Russell
The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property. -- James Madison
In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. -- John Adams
African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia. -- George Ayittey
Only if you empower the liberals, if you empower the moderate socialists, if you empower all factions of society, only then will extremists be marginalised. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
The Palestinian situation is different. We can have military cooperation with other factions in the Palestinian territories. But we cannot have this with Hizbullah in Lebanon. -- Ahmed Yassin
The most extreme individuals and factions in Islamic countries are now more motivated than ever to kill Americans, and the number of potential terrorists has greatly expanded. -- John Olver
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
Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq. -- Bill Vaughan
Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq. -- Bill Vaughan
The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me. -- John Pomfret
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
The Taliban rose to power in 1996, vowing stability and an end to the violence raging across the country between warring mujahedeen factions, and to implement rule by Sharia law, or strict Islamic rule. -- Lynsey Addario
I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us. -- Chinua Achebe
Hezbollah and the government are only two of 18 political factions in Lebanon, most of them armed. There are militant Christian groups, Palestinian radicals, al-Qaida, Druze militias and even armed bands of Marxists still operating in Lebanon. -- Richard Engel
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
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. -- Mike Simpson
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. -- Mike Simpson
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
Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left. -- Todd Rundgren
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest....The...causes of faction are sown in the nature of man. -- James Madison
We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness. -- Veronica Roth
In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population. -- Noam Chomsky
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
Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural assumptions about the world. And with some noble exceptions, 'The Times,' by design or otherwise, has long served the interests of the same set of elite and powerful factions. -- Glenn Greenwald
Rap has so many possibilities that need to be explored. There are different factions of rap, but some are in a rut. Rap doesn't have to be about boosting egos and grabbing your crotch and dissing women. There's a way to make political and social issues interesting and entertaining to the young rap audience. -- Michael Franti
We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives. -- Kathleen Troia McFarland
I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to have the best future for our nation, then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people, not by the factions. -- Kevin Rudd
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency. -- James Madison
Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we should be obliged to resort to party, let each of us range himself on the side which unfurls the ensigns of public good. Faction will then vanish, which, if not timely suppressed, may overturn the balance, the palladium of liberty, and crush us under its ruins. -- Benjamin Franklin
Power factions fight back with lies. -- Julian Assange
Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out. -- Edmund Burke
There are no factions in the Liberal Party -- Tony Abbott
The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions. -- Virgil
The Republican and Democratic Parties are only factions of the Government Party. -- Noam Chomsky
Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions. -- Samuel Johnson
Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage. -- Alexander Pope
Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy. -- Edward Gibbon
Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life. -- Sathya Sai Baba
We are attempting, by this Constitution, to abolish factions, and to unite all parties for the general welfare. -- Alexander Hamilton
You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now. -- Bashar al-Assad
I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions. -- Rivka Galchen
Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it. -- Tony Blair
The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs. -- Patrick Henry
The whole mythology of Westeros begins with the struggle between the Children of the Forest and different warring factions before the first men arrive. -- Alex Graves
Tolerance is our safest refuge and our fortress against the handicaps that arise from schism, factions, and the difficulties inherent in reaching mutual agreement -- Fethullah Gulen
The current transgender movement is composed of a great number of factions, divided by those old favorites of class, race, age, language, region, and nationality. -- Kate Bornstein
If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other. -- Abraham Lincoln
It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country. -- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
The thing about Iran is there are many political factions and it's not quite the dictatorial, authoritarian state with one person always making every single decision ... -- Hooman Majd
When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon. -- Voltaire
The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature. -- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation. -- Veronica Roth
The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice. -- Veronica Roth
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
In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party. -- Noam Chomsky
Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn. -- Edmund Burke
Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents' paths, your parents' rules. Today you will find your own path, make your own rules. -- Veronica Roth
It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the law of strategic siege. -- Sun Tzu
Where two factions see vividly each its own aspect, and contrive their own explanations of what they see, it is almost impossible for them to credit each other with honesty. -- Walter Lippmann
Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning. -- George Lincoln Rockwell
I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people -- Che Guevara
Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and thereby undermines the democratic way of life. -- John Dewey
After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present. -- W. P. Kinsella
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. -- Voltaire
There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party. Both represent some range of business interests. In fact, they can change their positions 180 degrees, and nobody even notices. -- Noam Chomsky

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