“I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.”

“...there is no such thing as a parttime partisan. Real partisans are partisans always and as long as they live. They put fallen governments back in power and overthrow governments that have just been put in power with the help of partisans. Mr Matzerath contended - and his thesis struck me as perfectly plausible - that among all those who go in for politics your incorrigible partisan, who undermines what he has just set up, is closest to the artist because he consistently rejects what he has just set up.”

“If I love freedom above all else, then any commitment becomes a metaphor, a symbol. This touches on the difference between the forest fleer and the partisan:this distinction is not qualitative but essential in nature. The anarch is closer to Being. The partisan moves within the social or national party structure, the anarch is outside of it. Of course, the anarch cannot elude the party structure, since he lives in society.”

“I don’t know if I’m partisan to the underdog or whether I’m the underdog.”

“The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. ”

“To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.”