Quotes About Defection

#1. In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. The only weapon of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to reinject the real and the referential everywhere, to persuade us of the reality of the social, of the gravity of the economy and the finalities of production.

Jean Baudrillard

#3. Suicide in Korean culture is a highly emotive means of protest. The regime regards it as a form of defection.

Hyeonseo Lee

#4. Based upon the tournament results and the formal propositions, four simple suggestions are offered for individual choice: do not be envious of the other player's success; do not be the first to defect; reciprocate both cooperation and defection; and do not be too clever.

Robert Axelrod

#5. Near the end of his life he went into a tirade about people who had been "disloyal" to him, triggered by the most recent defection.

Walter Terry

#6. Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.

Stockwell Day

#7. The defection of Hussein Kamel was a turning point in the U.N.-imposed disarmament of Iraq in the 1990s.

Barton Gellman

#8. Would you call what I'm going through a defection? Defection? For a moment I couldn't figure out what she meant.
Defection. Betraying your beliefs and convictions.

Haruki Murakami

#9. Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#10. The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost them dear, that those who adopt other values will be persecuted or even killed.

Pascal Boyer

#11. The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Compared to 10 years ago the primary motivation for defection has gone from food, to freedom.

Kim Jong-un

#13. I suspect as the GOP gets more bizarre, a quiet defection will occur

Dee Dawning

#14. A daily dose of inspiration will keep you moving.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#15. certain things. It comes when you think certain

Robin S. Sharma

#16. You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.

Umberto Eco

#17. Shutting out your problems does not dismiss them. Ignorance is not bliss. On the contrary, it creates an opportunity for those problems to grow.

Carlos Wallace

#18. Middle and high school is a time of people telling you who you are before you know who you are. I was in advanced classes at Frick and Schenley, and people would say I was trying to be white because of the way I spoke. Or they'd say I was gay.

Kyle Abraham