Partisanship Quotes

Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.

~ Harold Holzer

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

~ Walter Kirn

My commitment is to urge us all toward moderation and good will toward fellow citizens. If we can set aside unworthy emotions that deepen our political divide, concentrate on finding solutions to the problems our country and communities face, we can then work toward a brighter future with less rancor but firm in our purpose. Or, we can feed our primitive fight or flight impulse by lashing out in social media and then duck into our silos. If we do that, the unhealthy polarization of the time of Trump will get even worse.

~ Jeff Rasley

We owe our loyalty to each other and to our children's children, not to party politics.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Democratic government needs parties, parties do not need democracy.

~ Jacob T. Levy

A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line.

~ Colin Quinn

In the tired hand of a dying man, Theodore Senior had written: The 'Machine politicians' have shown their colors... I feel sorry for the country however as it shows the power of partisan politicians who think of nothing higher than their own interests, and I feel for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.

~ Edmund Morris

He had no desire to grandstand for his country or himself.

~ John Taliaferro

Burke's admonition--The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: We ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations--never seems to have occurred to Hayek. The Arnoldian ideal of the disinterested intellectual willing to criticize one side and then the other in order to create balance and counteract the one-sidedness that led toward fanaticism: That, too, was as alien to Hayek as it had been to Marcuse. If it was partisanship that led Hayek to push forward intellectually to new insights, it was also partisanship that kept him from a balanced and rounded philosophy.Perhaps a familiarity with the best that has been thought and said about the market will aid us in obtaining a more disinterested and informed perspective. Such a perspective might well begin with Hayek's insights. But it would by no means end with them. p. 387

~ Jerry Z. Muller

I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.

~ Glenn Greenwald

The author observers that better technology actually increased division because rival outlets funded by rival parties could get their slant to the partisans

~ Harold Holzer

The man who cannot listen to an argument which opposes his views either has a weak position or is a weak defender of it. No opinion that cannot stand discussion or criticism is worth holding. And it has been wisely said that the man who knows only half of any question is worse off than the man who knows nothing of it. He is not only one sided, but his partisanship soon turns him into an intolerant and a fanatic. In general it is true that nothing which cannot stand up under discussion and criticism is worth defending.

~ James E. Talmage

I had no knowledge of divine help, and all the world lost faith in gradual progress.

~ Joy Davidman

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

~ John Avlon