Top 19 Factious Quotes
#1. Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men
When for so slight and frivolous a cause
Such factious emulations shall arise!
William Shakespeare
#2. Avoid the politic, the factious fool,
The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave;
The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason,
Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal,
And mutiny the dictates of his spirit.
Thomas Otway
#3. What is the structure of government that will best guard against the precipitate counsels and factious combinations for unjust purposes, without a sacrifice of the fundamental principle of republicanism?
James Madison
#4. Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.
Alexander Hamilton
#5. We still are pestered by two parties: the aristocratic, which is panting for a counter revolution, and the factious, which aims at the division of the empire and destruction of the authority - and perhaps of the lives - of the reigning branch, both of which parties are fomenting troubles.
Marquis De Lafayette
#6. At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
John Dryden
#7. There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
Alexander Hamilton
#8. The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders, into intemperate and pernicious resolutions.
James Madison
#9. I take courage," Aeneas said. "Here too there are tears for things, and hearts are touched by the fate of all that is mortal.
Edith Hamilton
#10. There's nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don't fit the stereotype yet.
Haruki Murakami
#12. Doing good things for bad people is no different than doing bad things on good people.
M.F. Moonzajer
#13. I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.
George Strait
#14. Caro needed to be important. It was boring and typical and transparent as hell, even to her, but she couldn't turn it off any more than she could quit having arms.
Kelly Braffet
#15. During his interviews, he was unable to find essential answers to his ultimate questions: 1. What is man? 2. How should man live?
Nathan Bellow
#16. You have a transportation fetish.
I have a Gideon fetish. It's been weeks.
Sylvia Day
#17. Well John Cena's like a pinwheel, so you can go ahead and blow me.
John Cena
#18. Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.
George Will
#19. You can't change who you are, can you? That would require changing the people who made you along the way. That would mean discrediting everything they ever gave you.
Rose Christo