Animosity Quote by James Madison

The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

— James Madison

[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are…

— James Madison

It hardly needs saying that such mutualistic communities will also be plagued by conflict. Conflict is at the very heart of life, resulting not…

— Benjamin Nelson

The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every…

— Samuel Johnson

Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of…

— Karl Jaspers

“In estimating what amount of power would be requisite to secure the objects of government, we must take into the reckoning, what would be…

— Anonymous

“Some of the world’s violent conflicts are mainly economic, territorial or tribal. But many seem to come, at least in part, from conflicts between…

— Jonathan Glover

“Our contemporaries are constantly wracked by two warring passions: they feel the need to be led and the desire to remain free. Unable to…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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

It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of…

— Geoff Mulgan

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

— Charles Krauthammer