Prodemocratic Parties Quote by Steven Levitsky

“Political parties are on the hunt to search and destroy each other, as though we were involved in some kind of enemy combat, rather…

— John Lewis

“One of the reasons not to have a big long war with your traditional enemy is that you’re not thinking about the third party,…

— Gary Brecher

“Reasoning is a social process,47 and we typically have to convince disinterested third parties before there’s any chance our opponents will accept defeat.”

— Kevin Simler

“In general, the country is wise, but the political parties are not. It is these, and only these, that we have to fear. It…

— Adolphe Thiers

“In order to forge alliances, we first need worthy adversaries. Without adversaries, no alliances are necessary.”

— Bernd Heinrich

“Those who toe the party line do not choose their own way but submerge their potential for wholeness in a relatively unconscious existence of…

— Anthony Stevens

“Despotism may be the only organizational alternative to the political structure that we observe.”

— James M. Buchanan

“Democracy is nonconformity; it is mutual loyalty, even when we have to attack one another's ideas - ideas, which, because they are always human,…

— Joost A. M. Meerloo

“When the party becomes more important than principle, we are in dire straits,”

— Ben Carson

Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other

— Thucydides

“Political order, in short, requires cultural unity, something that politics itself can never provide.”

— Roger Scruton

The party is not concerned with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, providing that the hierarchical structure always remains the same.

— George Orwell