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Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists -- Jurgen Habermas
It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans. -- Friedrich Schiller
Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists. -- Jurgen Habermas
Hitler decided that Mussolini must be freed from the Italian Partisans because Benito was his friend and had acted in good faith. -- Otto Skorzeny
Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too. -- Jurgen Habermas
A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us. -- John Avlon
Registering people to vote is not partisan activity. -- Susan Bysiewicz
I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea. -- Joshua Chamberlain
Caring for veterans shouldn't be a partisan issue. It should an American one. -- Jennifer Granholm
It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet -- Mahatma Gandhi
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first. -- Ted Turner
Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated. -- Milan Kundera
The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist. -- Ambrose Bierce
All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience. -- Alice Walker
The general point that a political theory is, among other things, a partisan intervention, is well taken. So question about the actual political implication of a theory cannot be excluded as, in principle, irrelevant. -- Raymond Geuss
The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to the German Army, were, in my opinion, completely in accordance with the Hague Convention. -- Paul Blobel
Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory can contend that what distinguishes the genius from the dullard is entirely the effect of postnatal influences. -- Ludwig von Mises
First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals. -- John Avlon
Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort. -- Anthony Trollope
I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing. -- Thomas Jefferson
I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America. -- Olympia Snowe
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not a partisan challenge; it's common sense. Our physical health, our social happiness, and our economic well-being will be sustained only by all of us working in partnership as thoughtful, effective stewards of our natural resources. -- Ronald Reagan
Even in Madison's day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried to gerrymander Madison himself out of the First Congress. The term was coined during Madison's Presidency, to mock Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts, who in 1811 approved an election district that was said to look like a salamander. -- Jeffrey Toobin
The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America. -- Chris Christie
As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner. -- Gordon W. Allport
E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made. -- J. G. Ballard
Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities into one-dimensional punchlines. -- Mark McKinnon
I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic. -- Junot Diaz
Committed partisans are generally the most knowledgeable voters, independents the least. And the more political knowledge people have, the more apt they are to discuss politics with people who agree with, and reinforce, them. -- George Will
What might be good for ratings can be bad for the country. The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities. But the majority of Americans are starting to wake up to the game. -- John Avlon
It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing. -- David Horsey
In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive. -- Jonathan Haidt
True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a contact sport but a blood sport. -- Jim Cooper
There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance in the affairs of humanity. The more trivial the subject, the dearer it is to most of its partisans and the more worthy of scholarship. The smallest things in life often mean the most to people. -- Paul Di Filippo
The left defends their, whatever you want to call, partisans, activists or what have you. -- Rush Limbaugh
As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner. -- Gordon W. Allport
The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions. -- Sydney J. Harris
Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments. -- Daniel Okrent
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
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May the partisans of all doctrines in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to be attained over oneself and purity of the heart. -- Ashoka

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