Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.
He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.
For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.
When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the guilty party and experience unpleasant feelings.
The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.
The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.
Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.
In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.
There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.
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