Factions Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Factions Honest Men Might
Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks. — Cyrus the Great Copy Share Image
Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions. — James Jones Copy Share Image
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the… — Federica Montseny Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government in person,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
