Factions Quotes - Page 6

• Christ said: Blessed are the peace-makers, not blessed are the peace-sayers. If the world fell into the hands of totalitarian factions, there is still the possibility that they might fight amongst themselves. Surrender to them would not encourage the kingdom of peace and love - and those that desire it, or with passionate intensity permit it, know not what they do.

  Michael Novak

  Peace, War, Blessed

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• We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about: not with a state which makes war through wantonness, and abandons it through lassitude. We are at war with a system, which by its essence, is inimical to all other governments, and which makes peace or war, as peace and war may best contribute to their subversion. It is with an armed doctrine that we are at war. It has, by its essence, a faction of opinion, and of interest, and of enthusiasm, in every country.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, War, Passion

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• The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency--indeed, 1992 was the Year of the White Middle Class Woman--but since the leadership of this faction of the feminist movement has singled out black men as the meta-enemy of women, these women represent one of the most serious threats to black male well-being since the Klan.

  Ishmael Reed

  Men, Years, Class

  Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books

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• Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.

  Plato

  Love, Money, War

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• The media are a corporate monopoly. They have the same point of view. The two parties are two factions of the business party. Most of the population doesn't even bother voting because it looks meaningless. They're marginalized and properly distracted. At least that's the goal.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Views, Media

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.29, Seven Stories Press

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• There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Two, Degrees

  Interview with Adam Jones, February 20, 1990.

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• o matter how much research you do, or invention you do, whether it's a character from a novel, a completely invented character or someone who actually existed, it's a work of faction. By the very fact you only have an hour and a half or two hours to tell a story, you're telescoping events and it is, in the end, a work of imagination.

  Cate Blanchett

  Character, Two, Imagination

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  People, Personality, Conflict

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• First comes Self-confi­dence, that is the foundation. Then comes Self-satis­faction, it is like the wall. Next comes self-sacrifice, it is like the roof. Finally the house is complete and the Indweller is installed inside; that is Self-realiza­tion. It starts with Self-confidence and it ends with realizing the Self.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Wall, Sacrifice, Self Confidence

  Source: souljourns.net

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• 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

  Party, Korea, Class

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state, the majesty of the people, call it what you will - a doge, an avoyer, an archon, a president, a consul, a syndic; this becomes at once an object of ambition and dispute, and, in time, of division, faction, sedition, and rebellion.

  John Adams

  Ambition, People, President

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.583

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• All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.

  John Locke

  Men, Self, Balance

  John Locke (1840*). “The Conduct of the Understanding; By John Locke ... Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political; by Francis Bacon”, p.133

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• 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

  Country, Islamic, Numbers

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• What we face is a comprehensive contraction of our activities, due to declining fossil fuel resources and other growing scarcities. Our failure is the failure to manage contraction. It requires a thoroughgoing reorganization of daily life. No political faction currently operating in the USA gets this. Hence, it is liable to be settled by a contest for dwindling resources and there are many ways in which this won't be pretty.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Usa, Political, Reorganization

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• We are attempting, by this Constitution, to abolish factions, and to unite all parties for the general welfare.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Party, Constitution, Welfare

  Alexander Hamilton (1962). “Papers”

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• All combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community.

  George Washington

  Real, Party, Character

  George Washington, United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington) (1847). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796”, p.7

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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

  Party, Mirrors, Triumph

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.327

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• 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

  Christian, Government, Two

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• A dangerous thesis has taken hold among many in the GOP: that it might be better to lose the '06 election and re-group. In American history, when a faction in the majority party decides the party is tired and could benefit from some time in the wilderness, the voters usually oblige. Most recently, the latest issue of Washington Monthly includes a cover story featuring seven such articles from prominent Republican strategists, insiders and commentators.

  Larry Sabato

  Party, Taken, Tired

  "Angry Politics: 'Voters Gone Wild' in 2006" by Larry Sabato and David Wasserman, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 17, 2006.

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• I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.

  Martin Luther

  Hypocrite, Cutting, Fighting

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• We are made up of an entire parliament of pieces and parts and subsystems. Beyond a collection of local expert systems, we are collections of overlapping, ceaselessly reinvented mechanism, a group of competing factions. The conscious mind fabricates stories to explain the sometimes inexplicable dynamics of the subsystem inside brain. It can be disquieting to consider the extent to which all of our actions are driven by hardwired systems doing what they do best while we overlay stories about choices.

  David Eagleman

  Choices, Mind, Brain

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.157, Vintage

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• 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

  Mean, Two, Government

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a certain disillusionment, of a lowering of the activity of the vanguard, and consequently, of the growing importance of the rearguard. [Joseph] Stalin's faction has raised itself on the wave of reaction against the October revolution.

  Leon Trotsky

  October Revolution, Growing, Wave

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• American Green Berets have been on the ground reaching out to some of the factions there. But don't confuse them with combat troops. So we're only talking about airstrikes now. If there are any troops that go in there it will likely be the Italians.

  Tom Bowman

  Talking, Troops, Green

  "U.S. Airstrikes Hit ISIS Training Camp In Libya". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 19, 2016.

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• You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Party, Middle East, Different

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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