“What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.” PeopleThinkingMomentsDesirePartyConstitutionBurningAspirationOppositionVietnamBurning DesireOpposition Parties Author:Nong ?uc Manh
“The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit.” MenKindSoulLife IsDesirePassionPartyEmotionPursuitBelovedSincereDiscretionCourtship Book:The spectator Source: The spectator
“I think that the desire to be cruel and to hurt (with words because any other way might be dangerous to ourself) is part of human nature. Parties are battles (most parties), a conversation is a duel (often). Everybody's trying to hurt first, to get in the dig that will make him or her feel superior, feel triumph.” ThinkingWayFeelsTryingFirstsHumansMightDesireHurtPartyDangerousHuman NatureBattleConversationSuperiorsTriumphUnkindness Book:The letters of Jean Rhys Source: The letters of Jean Rhys
“The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness to a test on the part of the masses, thus preserving their right to an inactive hauteur which makes no difference to anybody. A revolutionary party can turn its back to a parliament only if it has set itself the immediate task of overthrowing the existing regime.” IfsDesireTurnsDifferencesPartyMassWeaknessTasksTestsInstitutionsRevolutionaryRegimesSubmitParliamentAnarchistParliamentaryBoycott Book:History of the Russian Revolution Source: History of the Russian Revolution
“A person who does not enter the new [Rastakhiz] party is either an individual who belongs to an illegal organization, or is related to the outlaw Tudeh Party, or in other words is a traitor. Such an individual belongs in an Iranian prison, or if he desires, he can leave the country tomorrow, because he is not an Iranian, he has no nation, and his activities are illegal and punishable according to law.” IfsPersonsDoeCountryLawDesireIndividualNationsPartyTomorrowActivityOrganizationPrisonRelatedIllegalTraitorIranianOutlaw Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
“One of those disturbing tendencies in academic life is that there is a desire on the part of many in the name of open-mindedness to fall into a kind of relativistic denialism in which all positions are equally legitimate, all positions must be respected, and compromise must be entered into no matter what the starting point or reasonableness of the two parties.” KindTwoMatterLife IsDesireFallNamesPartyPositionNo Matter WhatStartingTendenciesCompromiseAcademicDisturbingStarting PointOpen MindednessReasonablenessAcademic Life Author:Lawrence Summers
“No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. Whigs and Tories, Liberal party and Labour party - for what do they battle except their own prestige? It is not love of truth but desire to prevail that sets quarter against quarter and makes subserviency rather than the triumph of truth and the exaltation of virtue - but these moralities belong, and should be left to the historian, since they are as dull as ditch water.” MenShouldBelieveDesirePassionLeftWaterPartyVirtueCuttingMoralityBattleLowsRootsStrongerRateRageTriumphDullBreastsLabourPrizeHistorianQuartersPrestigeExaltationLabour PartyLiberal Party Book:Orlando: A Biography Source: Orlando: A Biography