A Quote by John Abizaid

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

John Abizaid

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John Abizaid
American - Soldier
Born: April 1, 1951

The truth is that all civic and social change is friction. Politics is friction. The only way you can bend the arc of history is to create that kind of friction, which is something that makes most people incredibly uncomfortable but which, for whatever reason, because of my upbringing or because of my genetics, is something that doesn't bug me.

Nick Hanauer

We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.

Ben Carson

If you care about real change, deep structural change, that involves politics, and all politics is friction. It takes leadership, and the willingness to create that friction, that leads to social change.

Nick Hanauer

Consider the impasse of a one-God universe. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. He can't go anywhere, since He is already everywhere. He can't do anything, since the act of doing presupposes opposition. His universe is irrevocably thermodynamic, having no friction by definition. So, He has to create friction: War, Fear, Sickness, Death, to keep his dying show on the road.

William S. Burroughs

In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them.

Timothy Noah

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

Bruce Greenwood

The first cities to create friction-free enterprise zones will get a lot of entrepreneurial traction.

Mark Cuban

f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth - certainly the machine will wear out... but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

Henry David Thoreau

Frequent friction when love becomes political.

Delano Johnson

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Saul Alinsky

There's such an energy created when the world is turned upside down, and when things are good again it's nice to take note. Then it goes away. Change. Change means friction. Friction happens where things aren't quite right, when everything is separating, when nothing is the same. Later you piece it back together.

Laurel Nakadate

Either you will have harmony with God and friction with people, or you will have harmony with people and friction with God.

Greg Laurie

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

Peter Drucker

The Court's primary duty, in short, is not to minimize its role or avoid friction with the political branches, but to try as best it can to get the Constitution right.

Diane S. Sykes

Economic, political and military intervention following the first world war is frequently blamed for current friction between east and west.

Bettany Hughes

The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.

Michael Eisner

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