factions

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Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions. Bertolt Brecht

Factions are a sign of illness in a party. Ernest Mandel

Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out. Edmund Burke

United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs. Patrick Henry

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream. Thomas Francis Meagher

We tread on unsure ground, theologically. The doctrines are still in the malleable state; what eventually evolves from them will owe its existence not to pre-eminent merit, but to the shrewdness of the compromises made by the factions. George Alec Effinger