Quotes About Left

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

Everyone would still be here, frozen in time just as I left them. But no, that's fantasy.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

It has also become clearer how the schemes of human expansion and fulfilment offered by the left, right, or 'centrist' liberals and technocrats rarely considered such constraining factors as finite geographical space, degradable natural resources and fragile ecosystems.

Old is just another word for nothing left to lose, a time of life to take bigger risks on behalf of the common good.

The far Left has never gotten over communism and once again demonstrates that its true passion is not freedom, but slavery in the name of justice.

You have a real gift for getting into trouble, don't you? That was one thing I forgot when you left the pack." "How is any of this my fault?" I asked hotly. He sighed. "I don't know. Does it matter whose fault it is once you're sitting in the middle of the frying pan?" He gave me a despairing look. "And as my father used to point out, you find your way into that frying pan way too often for it to be purely accidental.

Just a little meddling with dark forces better left alone," I said lightly, holding up the burning shingle.

They are the people who currently dominate the media. An identity of being 'on the left' has become a lazy way of feeling morally superior;

The left needs to move on from the West's self-flagellation and idealized notions of developing countries. Poverty is not romantic. The countries of the bottom billion are not there to pioneer experiments in socialism; they need to be helped along the already trodden path of building market economies.

In the end, the actions of such liberals have the effect---again unwittingly---of continuing to cover for the goals of the extreme Left. Yet again, the soft Left is helping to conceal the hard Left, whether it realizes it or not.

Soon after Robinson's testimony, HUAC ended the hearings without calling Paul, thus conceding defeat. By now a strong majority of the black masses, especially in the South, supported Paul. The left and progressive constituencies backed him solidly, including the entire Communist Party leadership.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.

Politics is like a grandfather clock. The pendulum swings left, the pendulum swings right and every so often a cuckoo pops out.

In a situation of manipulation, the Left is almost always tempted by a "quick return to power," forgets the necessity of joining with the oppressed to forge an organization, and strays into an impossible "dialogue" with the dominant elites. It ends by being manipulated by these elites, and not infrequently itself falls into an elitist game, which it calls "realism.

It should be a matter of honour on the Left to write at least as well, without redundancy or clutter, as its adversaries.

Humour and comedy have become a virtual monopoly of the cultural Left, because only they would ever seek to politicize humour in a free society. The only good conservative political jokes tend to come from countries under socialist oppression.

But the captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.

“You will indeed drink My cup,” Jesus said. “But to sit at My right or left is not Mine to grant. These seats belong to those for whom My Father has prepared them.”

Then He will say to those on His left, ëDepart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.