“Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checked - not least by his own party, which set a continental precedent by ousting Thabo Mbeki in 2007, after it felt he had outstayed his welcome by seeking a third term as party president. The ANC appears to have set itself against that deathtrap of African democracy: the ruler for life.” IfsWould BeFeltPresidentTermPartyDemocracyThirdsSeekingWelcomeImpulseRulersPrecedentContinentalMugabeZuma Author:Mark Gevisser
“Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!” IfsPoliticalBornPoorPartySuccessfulRepublicanImpulsePurityPatriotRepublican PartyPolitical Parties Book:Yesterdays in a Busy Life Source: Yesterdays in a Busy Life
“I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.” MenPartyMankindHigherRegardImpulseArjuna Book:The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“I have repeatedly stressed that the selfish impulses of man constitute a much less historic danger than his integrative tendencies. To put it in the simplest way: the individual who indulges in an excess of aggressive self-assertiveness incurs the penalties of society-he outlaws himself, he contracts out of the hierarchy. The true believer, on the other hand, becomes more closely knit into it; he enters the womb of his church, or party, or whatever the social holon to which he surrenders his identity.” MenWaySelfHandsIndividualSocialChurchPartyDangerIdentityBelieverSelfishSurrenderTendenciesImpulseContractsAggressiveExcessPenaltiesSimplestHistoricWombHierarchyIndulgeStressedIndulge InOutlawTrue BelieverAssertiveness Author:Arthur Koestler
“The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell their art as a brand; but who has so much integrity that they would turn down a party?” KnowsMeanArtArtistTurnsPartyToo MuchIntegritySellsBrandsImpulseSubversive Author:Terence McKenna