Factionalized Quotes & Sayings

The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke. — Ximenes Doudan

The FfP uses twelve indicators to measure state failure, and Egypt scored a stellar nine out of ten in criminalization or delegitimization of the state, understood as "massive and endemic corruption or profiteering by ruling elites, resistance of ruling elites to transparency, accountability and political representation, widespread loss of popular confidence in state institutions, and processes and growth of crime syndicates linked to ruling elites." It rated 8.5 out of ten in "suspension or arbitrary application of the rule of law and widespread violation of human rights." And it rated a relatively modest 8.3 in the "rise of factionalized elites" or the "fragmentation of elites and state institutions along group lines," and the use of "nationalistic political rhetoric by ruling elites. — John R. Bradley

If President Nixon's secretary, Rosemary Woods, had been Moses' secretary, there would only be eight commandments. — Art Buchwald

The Iranian leaders describe the American government exactly the way American analysts describe the Iranian one, as an opaque, factionalized system with competing power centers, over which the president exercises very limited authority. — Ali Khamenei

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers. — Christopher Isherwood

The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized. — Michael Beschloss

Fear, she's the mother of violence. — Peter Gabriel

Arrogance was one of the key factors that kept the white left so factionalized. I felt that instead of fighting against a common enemy, they wasted time quarreling with each other about who has the right line.
Although i respected the work and political positions of many groups on the left, i felt it was necessary for Black people to come together and organize our own structures and our own politcal party ...
I felt, and still feel, that it is necessary for Black revolutionaries to come together, analyze our history, our present condition, and to define ourselves and our struggle. — Assata Shakur

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all. — Ben Marcus

As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do. — Andrej Pejic