Partisans Quotes · Page 7

In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is…

— Jonathan Haidt

The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to…

— Paul Blobel

If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confronting the US made him [Hugo Chavez] a target for demonization. Partisan and/or lazy journalism exaggerated his faults, ignored his virtues, and…

— Rory Carroll

I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think…

— Ted Turner

I'm really not a partisan political person. I remember when I was in Washington they kept trying to get me to say…

— Edward Zigler

We haven't done anything. That has devolved into a partisan bickering of the kind that says Nero was fiddling while Rome burned.

— Michael Scheuer

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

— John Avlon

I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.

— Joshua Chamberlain

I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal…

— Liza Mundy

Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists

— Jurgen Habermas

People read the Tribune or the Sun-Times, you know, way back when the Tribune was a right-wing paper.It's always been somewhat that…

— William Kristol

Even in Madison's day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick…

— Jeffrey Toobin

Partisans present some of the most refreshing music I've heard in a long while, uncompromising, very well written and very well played.…

— Steve Swallow

In Washington, when you’re a leader, you have to put aside partisan politics to do what’s right for the people.

— George Pataki

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Elections have consequences. And I fundamentally believe - this is my personal opinion, I know it's a slightly partisan thing to say…

— Paul Ryan

There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual impartiality should be confounded with political trimming, or…

— Herman Melville

Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem…

— Ron Fournier

The road ahead may be difficult for all Australians, but we need not be divided on partisan lines.

— Tony Whitlam

Part of it is eight years of a black president, and white America still lost their [minds] about that. Part of it…

— Junot Diaz

Increasingly we're seeing these ultra-partisan sites getting larger and larger readerships because people are self-selecting themselves into communities.

— Edward Snowden

I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair.

— Donald M. Payne