Top 100 Faction Quotes
#1. MATTER OF FACTION
Fractionalization by God or marginalization by man?
Kamil Ali
Kamil Ali
#2. 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.
#3. The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.
James Madison
#4. For when people do not keep watch over the commons, it is destroyed. It results, then, that they fall into civil faction, compelling one another by force and not wishing to do what is just themselves.
Aristotle.
#5. 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
#6. 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
#8. Why would the factionless have a high Divergent population?" It sounds like she's smirking. "Obviously those who can't confine themselves to a particular way of thinking would be most likely to leave a faction or fail its initiation, right?
Veronica Roth
#9. I close my eyes. I don't expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends, my faction.
Veronica Roth
#10. Mayhem? Without inviting the Valkyrie? And in our territory, too? If beings were going to trespass in order to war, they should at least have the courtesy to invite the host faction to the conflict.
Kresley Cole
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. They call me one of the 4 Devas, but I don't have any members in my faction. My life is all you need. They serve no use at all. They just happen to be my family. -Otose
Hideaki Sorachi
#16. I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
Veronica Roth
#17. Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#18. Either his family doesn't like to come together, or he wasn't originally Dauntless. Which faction could he have come from?
Veronica Roth
#19. Intelligence must be used for the benefit, and not to the detriment, of society. Those who use intelligence for their own personal gain or to the detriment of others have not properly borne the responsibility of their gift, and are not welcome in our faction.
Veronica Roth
#20. I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
Aaron Eckhart
#21. So false is faction, and so smooth a liar,
As that it never had a side entire.
Samuel Daniel
#22. 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
#23. Cherokee faction of fewer than 500 people in a nation of 17,000 who were agreeable to removal.
Mark Kurlansky
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. The Buddhists succumbed to the Muslims, the British brought in Christianity, and now the Muslims decide one faction of their religion is better than the other.
Jameson Currier
#28. I stare into my own eyes for a moment. Today is the day of the aptitude test that will show me which of the five factions I belong in. And tomorrow, at the Choosing Ceremony, I will decide on a faction; I will decide the rest of my life; I will decide to stay with my family or abandon them.
Veronica Roth
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. In 1962 one Naga faction had made its peace with the government of India, as had another faction in 1975. But there remained a group stubbornly committed to the idea of an independent and sovereign Nagaland. This was the National Socialist Council of Nagaland, led by Isaak Swu and
Ramachandra Guha
#34. 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
#35. Candor values honesty, but our faction, Abnegation, values selflessness.
Veronica Roth
#36. I'll find a day to massacre them all
And raze their faction and their family,
The cruel father and his traitorous sons,
To whom I sued for my dear son's life,
And make them know what 'tis to let a queen
Kneel in the streets and beg for grace in vain.
William Shakespeare
#38. We are in a factionless storehouse, and the factionless, who are supposed to be scattered, isolated, and without community . . . are together inside it. Are together, like a faction.
Veronica Roth
#39. If the Dauntless knew about this, everyone would be getting in line to learn how to drive it," he says. "Including me."
"No, they would be strapping themselves to the wings." Christina pokes his arm. "Don't you know your own faction?
Veronica Roth
#40. 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
#41. To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
John Dryden
#43. 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
#44. Blood before faction-no, love before faction, always.
Veronica Roth
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. It may be concluded that a pure democracy ... can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.
James Madison
#48. Even a quick reading of Rizal's trial will prove that those who take Constantino's works uncritically are likewise guilty of "Veneration Without Understanding." Since there is so much fiction and faction in history it is always essential to return to the sources.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#49. Lynn, she saved half our faction from this stuff," says Marlene, tapping the bandage on her arm from where the Dauntless traitors shot her. "Well, half of half of our faction."
"In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar," Lynn says.
Veronica Roth
#50. The "evils of faction" theme recurs throughout our history, from the writings of the "muckrakers" at the turn of the twentieth century to the Democratic presidential primary campaigns of 2008 with talk of Halliburton's contracts in Iraq and the shady practices of sub-prime mortgage lenders.
Edward S. Greenberg
#51. 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
#52. The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction
Aristotle.
#53. If I wanted to put up with Candor smart-mouths, I would have joined their faction.
Veronica Roth
#54. It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.
Lord John Russell
#56. Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
William Butler Yeats
#57. 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, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Alexander Hamilton
#58. 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
#59. I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn't some faction archetype. But the Tris who's trying as hard as she can to destroy herself ... I can't love her.
Anonymous
#60. Faction" is a type of historical fiction that combines fact with fiction.
Martin Herman
#61. I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.
William Shakespeare
#62. 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
#63. Inequality is everywhere at the bottom of faction, for in general faction arises from men's striving for what is equal.
Aristotle.
#64. A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.
Isaac D'Israeli
#65. I'd rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction.
Veronica Roth
#66. Wesley's anti-Calvinistic faction within the movement with its doctrine that grace could be lost. The
Max Weber
#67. The most ridiculous part is, in any other faction it would be brave of us to tell someone what happened. But here ... in Dauntless ... bravery won't do us any good.
Veronica Roth
#68. A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#69. The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.
James Buchanan
#70. Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.
Anthony Bourdain
#71. My latest battle had nothing to do with The Company, the rebels, or any other faction. It was out-and-out warfare between my head and my heart. Keeping it cool during daylight, versus nighttime, when I unleashed my passion for him ... Turned out the Wilderness was a lot more hostile than me.
Rie Warren
#72. They all laugh. We all laugh. And it occurs to me that I might be meeting Tobias's true faction. They are not characterized by a particular virtue. They claim all colors, all activities, all virtues, and all flaws as their own.
Veronica Roth
#73. Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.
Norman Mailer
#74. I don't personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles - I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in.
Xavier Dolan
#75. The Candor man wears a black suit with a white tie - Candor standard uniform. Their faction values honesty and sees the truth as black and white, so that is what they wear.
Veronica Roth
#76. Where there is faction, there is conflict; where there is conflict, there is anger. And anger distorts judgment.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#77. Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
Thomas More
#78. The war produced a dreadful desolation in the underground movement. After the arrest of the Duma faction, the Bolsheviks had no centralized party organization at all. The local committees had an episodic existence, and often had no connections with the workers' districts.
Leon Trotsky
#79. I am astonished but not discouraged by my enormous responsibility. Devoted both from affection and duty to the cause of the people, I shall combat with equal ardor aristocracy, despotism, and faction.
Marquis De Lafayette
#80. 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
#81. One faction views SeaWorld as a Garden Hilton for killer whales, and the other views it as a Hanoi Hilton for killer whales.
David Kirby
#82. 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
#83. What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating,
Christopher Hitchens
#84. Liberty is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyme
George Washington
#85. 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
#86. But for this mass struggle session, the victims were the reactionary bourgeois academic authorities. These were the enemies of every faction, and they had no choice but to endure cruel attacks from every side.
Liu Cixin
#88. Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams
#89. At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order ...
Augustus
#91. And he's right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain; the Amity, peaceful but passive; the Candor, honest but inconsiderate; the Abnegation, selfless but stifling.
Veronica Roth
#92. The Republican party is not inflamed, as some would fain have the country believe, against the South. Its borders are wide enough for all truly loyal men to find within them peace and repose from the din and discord of angry faction.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
#93. What was achieved under Nazi-fascism through bloody terror against the organized workers' movement and the people is to be achieved again today in West Europe through the information society
Red Army Faction
#94. The rejection of sabotage in the metropole, based on the argument that it would be better to take things over instead of destroying them, is based on the dictum: The people of the Third World should wait for their revolution until the masses in the metropole catch up.
Red Army Faction
#95. They see in the political apathy of the proletariat only the apathy, not the protest against a system that has nothing to offer them.
Red Army Faction
#96. They see in the population's hostility towards the left only the hostility towards the left, not the hatred against those who are socially privileged.
Red Army Faction
#97. I regret ... " Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice."
"What Choice?"
"Dauntless," he says. "I was born Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But I met her, and ... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision."
Her.
Veronica Roth
#98. The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite
Veronica Roth
#99. Following this logic, to bomb BASF in Ludwigshafen would be to mock the people who bombed BASF in Brazil. The Latin American comrades feel differently. BASF does as well.
Red Army Faction
