Factionalism Quotes

“It is vital that we avoid any hint of moral superiority in our dealings with one another in the environmental movement; if it developed into factionalism it would destroy us, as factionalism has destroyed so many other progressive movements in America.”
― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“There's no evidence from decades of Pew Research surveys that public opinion, in the aggregate, is more extreme now than in the past. But what has changed -- and pretty dramatically -- is the growing tendency of people to sort themselves into political parties based on their ideological differences.”
― Pew Research Center, The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown

“He saw the Constitution as the vehicle to keep ecumenical passions in check.”
― Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court