faction quotes

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 StJohn, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
  Idea of a Patriot King. Published in1749.

Persecution produced its natural effect on them.It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

-1st Baron
  On the Puritans, House of Commons, 22 May.

Where there is then no good For which to strive, no strife can grow up there From faction; for none sure will claim in hell Prece  dence, none, whose portion is so small Of present pain, that with ambitious mind Will covet more.

-John Milton
  Satan. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.30^5.

Two evilsgreed and factionare the destruction of all justice.

- SirThomas More
  Utopia (English translation1556), bk.2.

We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no majority, no government, church, corporation, trade, or professional association or trade union. The secret of its freedom is that it is composed of a multitude of organisations in the constitution of the best of which is reproduced that diffusion of power which is characteristic of the whole.

- Michael Joseph Oakeshott
  Rationalism in Politics.

But of good household features her person was made, Nor by faction cry'd up nor of censure afraid, And her beauty was rather for use than parade.

- Matthew Prior
  'Jinny theJust' (first printed1907).The title was givenbyA R Waller.