Absurdity Quote by Edwin Percy Whipple

“What looks to be the cleanest political party, for a period, will often prove to be the filthiest in the end. Just like any…

— Criss Jami

Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base motives, such…

— Randal Marlin

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency,…

— Ronald Reagan

In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct…

— Peter Mandelson

Political parties can be pretty internecine, and pretty savage.

— Jesse Armstrong

All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“politics is brutal because it engages the most fundamental human impulses for affection, honor, power, and fame. Great principles and grand visions are ennobling,…

— Jon Meacham

It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor…

— Joseph P. Bradley

Political parties depend for existence and success, not so much on the holding of identical views, as on a shared philosophy and ties of…

— Dominic Grieve

The greatest level of hostility and venom, really, is between parties closest to each other on the political spectrum.

— Elizabeth May

“Many people feel that playing the political game involves devious plotting or blatant self-promotion. But in reality, “politics” is what naturally happens whenever people…

— Marie G. McIntyre