Famous quotes containing the words purely and/or political:
“You dont want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill out of them. It is all purely secondaryand more decadent than the most hide-bound intellectualism.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enforce criminal statutes implies substantial unanimity in the community. This is the result of the jury system. Hence the futility of party prohibition.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)