Factions Quote by Ernest Mandel Download Open image “Factions are a sign of illness in a party.” — Ernest Mandel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Factions Illness Party
Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
There will always be, within a party, people who backed one candidate versus people who backed another, and there will be factions in the… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A number of party... members lack proper discipline, are plagued by individualism, selfishness and opportunism. This gives rise to some individuals' words not matching… — Nguyen Phu Trong Copy Share Image
No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is the disease which manifests itself in an inability to leave a party--any party at all--until it is all over and the lightsare… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare. — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible. — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries. — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions. — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected. — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism. — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
I am like all other atheists only in that I do not believe there are any gods. Beyond that, I may differ dramatically in… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
The thing about Iran is there are many political factions and it's not quite the dictatorial, authoritarian state with one person always making every… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
“Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men When for so slight and frivolous a cause Such factious emulations shall arise!” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Women lead in ways different from men's. Men, I think, have been programmed to give orders. Women have been programmed to motivate people, to… — Muriel Fox Copy Share Image
Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The Shield had run its course as a three-man group, and we'll go down in history as one of the greatest factions of all… — Seth Rollins Copy Share Image
It is amazing how pretending to be in a different faction changes everything -- even the way I walk. That must be why it's… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
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… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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… — Tom Bowman Copy Share Image
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly… — James Madison Copy Share Image
