Quotes About Left

The late Andrew Breitbart saw this as essential, writing, "The left does not win its battles in debate. It doesn't have to. In the twenty-first century, media is everything. The left wins because it controls the narrative. The narrative is controlled by the media. The left is the media. Narrative is everything. I call it the Democrat-media complex.

Yet for the evangelical left, with humor as with everything else, if it's not for everyone then it's not for anyone.

Because the evangelical left—like most human beings—is highly lacking in empathy and unable to perceive other points of view, its members tend to equate their perspective with universally perceived truth.

It was also the test that produced the most astounding observation of all. The left, talking brain didn't seem to miss the right brain, and vice versa. It didn't just not miss it—it didn't even remember it or the functions it had performed, as if the right hemisphere had never existed. For me, this phenomenon is the single most important fact students of mind/brain research must take into account.

Much of the left—which had resoundingly and scathingly rejected the intelligence community's unambiguous assessment of Edward Snowden as a betrayer of national secrets rather than a well-intentioned whistle-blower—now suddenly embraced the intelligence community's authority in its suggestion of Trump's nefarious relationships with the Russians.

Why did we do this on a Friday when it would hit the airports hardest and bring out the most protesters? almost the entire White House staff demanded to know. "Errr … that's why," said Bannon. "So the snowflakes would show up at the airports and riot." That was the way to crush the liberals: make them crazy and drag them to the left.

Think about the precedents you are setting. It's the Left that runs the world on reckless emotionalism. Don't join.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town.

the Left has repeatedly mistaken statecraft for politics by its persistent failure to understand that the two are not only radically different but exist in radical tension—in fact, opposition—to each other.

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

The understanding table of enlightenment and the ideas of which solidifies the two sides of left and right to dictate what's true and what's false! To understand the meaning of understanding takes a lot more listening than speaking!!

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

I feel like a class traitor when I say it but the first lesson from the 'heroic' age of the Left in the Thirties is that it never works like that in a conflict in which your own society is involved. You can be a critical friend of one side or another, a very critical friend as often as not, but you have to choose which side you are on, and those who don't usually end up as the biggest villains of all.

It is not only in academia and on the remnants of the Left that you encounter the argument that to prefer democracy to tyranny in other cultures, or the rights of women to the demands of misogynist clerics, is to announce yourself as insensitive brute or interfering imperialist.

Anti-communism was never accepted as the moral equivalent of anti-fascism, not only by my parents but also by the overwhelming majority of liberal-minded people. The Left was still morally superior. Even when millions were murdered and tens of millions were enslaved and humiliated, the 'root cause' of crimes beyond the human imagination was the perversion of noble socialist ideals.

If people assume that everyone on the Left is good, if they can't tear their eyes from abuses close to home to see the darker world beyond, if they pretend that they are not taking sides when they opt for neutrality and then compound the fault by believing that the irrational has rational causes, then disgrace inevitably follows.

There also needs to be a clean break with totalitarianism: both totalitarian regimes abroad and the totalitarian left – if it is still a left – at home. It is incredible that this point needs to be reiterated after the twentieth century; astonishing that we need to go through all that again.

Linke und Rechte sind durch die verschiedenen Deutungen charakterisiert, die sie dem zweideutigen Motto geben, das Goya für ein Capricho wählt: "El sueño de la razón produce monstruos." Die Linke übersetzt: schlafen. Die Rechte: träumen.

Mehr als eine ideologische Strategie ist die Linke eine Lexikographische Taktik.

We reactionaries are unfortunate: the left steals our ideas and the right our vocabulary.

If the left continues adopting, one after another, the objections that we reactionaries have raised against the modern world, we will have to become leftists.

To be on the left is to believe that the omens of catastrophe are omens of prosperity.

He who longs for "perfect communication" among individuals, their reciprocal "perfect transparency," their mutual "perfect possession," as a certain high priest of the left does, longs for the perfect totalitarian society.