Quotes About Left

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.

...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.

It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.

In America, we have a bifurcated country, we have a polarized country. One of the reasons I think it's polarized is because of identity politics on the left.

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.

From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left.

John Wayne was never shy about that fervor, but because he was never overly zealous about his politics, and of course his status as a movie, he was embraced by both the right and the left.

I think that no one roiled American politics and sort of scrambled the left/right dynamic more 2015 year than Pope Francis.

The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.

For the left, the terror had been cruel necessity, made inevitable by the determination of the enemies of liberty and the rights of man to strangle them at birth. For the right, the Revolution had been violent from the start in its commitment to destroying respect and reverence for order and religion.

It first was published on the left of the reverse of the dollar bills at the beginning of the New Deal, 1933 by order of President F.D. Roosevelt.

The Right, at least, has a critique of bureaucracy. It's not a very good one. But at least it exists. The Left has none. As a result, when those who identify with the Left do have anything negative to say about bureaucracy, they are usually forced to adopt a watered-down version of the right-wing critique.

Left solution to any social problems—and radical left solutions are, almost everywhere now, ruled out tout court—has invariably come to be some nightmare fusion of the worst elements of bureaucracy and the worst elements of capitalism.

the Left's current inability to formulate a critique of bureaucracy that actually speaks to its erstwhile constituents is synonymous with the decline of the Left itself. Without such a critique, radical thought loses its vital center—it collapses into a fragmented scatter of protests and demands.

The whole history of the radical past, from Trotsky on, warned that my individual truth would have little effect on the attitude of the left. Confronted by such a truth, the left would seek first to ignore and then to discredit it, because it was damaging to the progressive cause.

To preach conservative heresy — making the rules stricter than they are, distorting doctrines through ignorance or narrowness, denying the Eucharist to those who have a right to receive it — is pretty safe. No one will complain to the bishop. But anyone who leans to the left is in danger of instant denunciation. There is a saying in the Vatican, "The right writes." The left fumes in silence. That is a sin against stewardship.

If God wanted you to putt cross-handed, he would have made your left arm longer.

I think you're a taker. You've always been one. It's like God left some part of you out when He built you inside of me.

God took his chosen people and we are what's left. He looked at what's left and thought: I could kill you all, but let's see what happens. A little social experiment.

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.

A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.

The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.