Quotes About Party

In the early 1940s the social democratic refugee Franz Neumann argued in his classic Behemoth that a "cartel" of party, industry, army, and bureaucracy ruled Nazi Germany, held together only by "profit, power, prestige, and especially fear."1

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"

Prohibition remade national party politics and imprinted the path of American state development into distinctive and permanent molds.

You can always count on people to crowded your party when you're in glory but you should never dream of people sending you charcoal in the cold.

My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

Well, look who's joining the party, boys, Dog drawled. Looks like the bet's off. The hell it is. Lawe moved in, just slightly behind his mate's right shoulder. You have my thousand. My mate will kick his ass.

A crash, a cry, and a laugh from Laurie, accompanied by the indecorous exclamation, Jupiter Ammon! Jo's upset the cake again! caused a momentary flurry, which was hardly over when a flock of cousins arrived, and 'the party came in', as Beth used to say when a child.

I didn't leave the Democratic party, the Democratic Party left me.

I am impatient with those Republicans who after the last election rushed into print saying, 'We must broaden the base of our party'- when what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents

I mean, he didn't get in till four. He hosted a party at Neuralgio's for our new French author, Claude Nasal-Passages, and then everybody went on to the Twelve Apostles.

Happy birthday, Nicaragua. I drank a toast in the best rum in the world, Flor de Caña Extra Seco. Mixed with Coke, it was called a Nica-libre, and after a few glasses I was ready to take on the salsa champions and knock them dead. I went outside to dance.

And - as is perhaps the universal custom of aristocratically bred persons - they reacted to the news of their ruin by resolving to throw a party.

The trouble with the English is their history happened overseas, so they don't know what it means. The secret if a dinner party in London is to outnumber the English, if they're outnumbered they behave, otherwise you're in trouble.

But India has a population problem and its left parties also ignore birth control. So after the CPI there was the CPI(M), the Communist Party of India (Marxist), and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) a.k.a. CPI(M-L). Enough parties? Babe, the party's only just getting started.

The BJP is an optimistic party. Our strength and our democratic values are such that even a poor person from a backward section - like me - has been nominated as a Prime Ministerial candidate.

The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

I generally think debates within a party should not be treated as a scandal. They should be treated as a sign of strength, to be honest.

That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

The lawyers of the United States form a party which is but little feared and scarcely perceived, which has no badge peculiar to itself, which adapts itself with great flexibility to the exigencies of the time, and accommodates itself to all the movements of the social body; but this party extends over the whole community, and it penetrates into all classes of society; it acts upon the country imperceptibly, but it finally fashions it to suit its purposes.

The despotism of public opinion, the tyranny of majorities, the absence of intellectual freedom which seemed to him to degrade administration and bring statesmanship, learning, and literature to the level of the lowest, are no longer considered. The violence of party spirit has been mitigated, and the judgment of the wise is not subordinated to the prejudices of the ignorant. Other dangers have come.

I had once heard somebody say, at a party, that one of the nice things about marriage was that you could have real affairs – an affair before marriage could always turn out to be nothing but courtship.

She hoped he wouldn't ask what she was doing at the party. If she had to say she was a poet, her present situation, her overindulgence, would be taken as drearily typical.

She thought that when she went with Peter to an engineers' party, the atmosphere was pleasant though the talk was boring. That was because everybody had their importance fixed and settled at least for the time being. Here nobody was safe. Judgment might be passed behind backs, even on the known and published. An air of cleverness or nerves obtained, no matter who you were.