quotes about Factions
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I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
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 -
The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction
-- Aristotle -
Factions are a sign of illness in a party.
-- Ernest MandelSource : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl
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It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.
-- John Russell, 1st Earl RussellSource : Letter to T. Attwood, October 1831, after the rejection in the House of Lords of the Reform Bill (7 October 1831)
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I do not belong to any faction, I will fight them all.
-- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just -
Clam chowder is one of those subjects, like politics or religion, that can never be discussed lightly. Bring it up even incidentally, and all the innumerable factions of the clam bake regions raise their heads and begin to yammer.
-- Louis Pullig De Gouy -
Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.
-- Mary Douglas -
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Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.
-- Norman Mailer -
We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.
-- Thom Gunn -
Every question that can be answered must beanswered or at least engaged. Illogical thought processes must bechallenged when they arise.Wrong answers must be corrected.Correct answers must be affirmed. —From the Erudite faction manifesto
-- Veronica Roth -
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In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life.
-- Veronica Roth