Quotes About Left

A lot of these so-called left positions are actually centrist by the standards of the American people, just not by members of the American Congress.

The Evangelical Left is eager to dissuade Pentecostals, Charismatics and Evangelicals from their traditional support for Israel.

Always keep left for a safe ride, because passionate bikers will be always right.

China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it gets them nervous.

At Newcastle, I was playing in the No 10 position but also in midfield as a left winger.

The left controls academia, the culture, and the news media.

People call me left of centre, they don't even know why left is called left and why right is called right. They have no clue. These are just you know jargons - created and marketed.

London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain – the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; 'Islamophobic' to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims – swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm.

I am not too happy with terms like "the left", to be honest. And I don't use it much….if by "the left" you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can't be elements of the left opposed to workers' movement, at least under that definition.

what are called opinions "on the left" and "on the right" in the media represent only a limited spectrum of debate, which reflects the range of needs of private power—but there's essentially nothing beyond those "acceptable" positions.

The "political revolution" that Bernie Sanders called for, rightly, would not have greatly surprised Dwight Eisenhower. What that means is the spectrum has shifted so far to the right that what the population wants, and what was once mainstream, now looks radical and extremist.

The Democratic Party and even the Democratic Left are not going to tell people, 'Look, your problem is that, back in the 1970s, we took part in a major process of the financialization of the economy and the hollowing out of the productive system. So your wages and incomes have stagnated for thirty years, while that wealth is produced in a very few pockets. Those are our policies.' They're not going to tell them that. No, there is no real Left now.

I do not pretend to know the answer to this question. But it seems clear that unless there is, in some form, a positive answer, the chances for a truly democratic revolution that will achieve the humanistic ideals of the left are not great.

an age of unparalleled economic inequality, growing authoritarianism, and social Darwinism, with a left that has turned its back on the class struggle.

No, there is no real Left now. If you are just counting heads, there are probably more people involved than in the 1960s, but they are atomized, committed to different special interests—gay rights, environmental rights, this, that. They don't coalesce into a movement that can really do things.

it's always useful to look at the establishment Left, marking the limits of what it is OK to say. Lewis wrote in New York Times (May 1, 1975) that the war began with "blundering efforts to do good." How do we know that? Because it's an axiom, a necessary truth. If the United States did it, it was an effort to do good. You don't need any evidence for that. That's hegemonic common sense. Why "blundering efforts"? Because it didn't work.

Linc and his date, who he thought had left an hour before, were either held hostage or enthralled on the sofa

It took some time for Boomers to reach their "uncomfortable analysis" phase. This stands in contrast to Generation X, who entered that phase immediately and never left.

Hey there, Hallie, welcome to the next place we need a Deer Crossing sign.' I didn't know that deers could read.' They can in Cosgrove County. It's part of the No Deer Left Behind program.

See this abdicated beast, once king Of them all, nibble his claws: Not anger enough left—no, nor despair— To break his teeth on the bars.

I looked to my left and saw a gorgonzola-green automobile in the driveway.

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges or scrub the floor.

For the state, theology is too important to be left to the theologians.

motivation may be no more complex than that of an angry child flinging scat because he was left with regularity in a dirty diaper.