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Google has long been a leftist company.
~ Ben Shapiro
The leftist vision of politics as a matter of rights begets an attitude of grievance and entitlement.
~ Michael J. Knowles
Life doesn't just happen; it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.
~ Mike Mills
Ali Shariati and others, who subscribed to the traditional leftist belief that capitalism was, at its core, the systematic exploitation of the weak
~ Mark Bowden
The leftist's despair is to battle in the name of principles that forbid him cynicism.
~ Emil M. Cioran
How many times, in their heart of hearts, must they not envy the doctrinal offhandedness of their enemies! The leftist's despair is to battle in the name of principles that forbid him cynicism.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Um dos mais tristes efeitos desta guerra foi ensinar-me que a imprensa esquerdista é tão falsa e desonesta quanto a da direita.
~ George Orwell
I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.
~ Whitfield Diffie
The elevation of unity as the highest social value is a core tenet of fascism and all leftist ideologies.
~ Jonah Goldberg
You may notice when arguing with someone on the left that every time you begin to make a point, that leftist begins shouting
~ Ben Shapiro
Abortion is a real moral issue with real lives at stake, and no amount of leftist badgering could back conservative Americans off their attempts to protect the unborn.
~ Ben Shapiro
While the Left glorifies diversity of race and ethnicity, it actively opposes diversity of thought, considering only leftists ideas acceptable for dissemination.
~ Ben Shapiro
The higher education system indoctrinates America's youth. The vast majority of the professoriate is leftist. This is an uncontested fact.
~ Ben Shapiro
You may notice when arguing with someone on the left that every time you begin to make a point, that leftist begins shouting about George W. Bush. It's like Leftist Tourette's Syndrome. "Why did Obama blow out the budget?" "BUUUUUUUSHHHH!!!!!
~ Ben Shapiro
That person already disagrees with you, and they're not going to be convinced by your words of wisdom and your sparkling rhetorical flourishes. The goal will be to destroy the leftist in as public a way as is humanly possible.
~ Ben Shapiro
George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Lo último que nos dejó la breve etapa de Rathenau como sabor de boca fue la confirmación de lo que ya el periodo 1918/1919 nos había enseñado: nada de lo que hace la izquierda funciona.
~ Sebastian Haffner
There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their own successors. But that's basically how the Ph.D. system works, with sitting professors approving the work of would-be professors.
~ Ben Shapiro
George Orwell famously observed in The Road to Wigan Pier that leftist intellectuals seldom had anything to do with the lower classes that they championed, for a simple reason, his emphasis: "The lower classes smell.
~ Harold McGee
This leftist political strategy to win office and power relies on something very powerful: the desire to increase the number of Americans who are dependent on getting money that is taken from other citizens. Sadly, this strategy has worked for half a century! And now it works because Americans who are trapped in this nightmare do not want their government money taken away from them!
~ Star Parker
Some people conclude that anyone who utters a good word about leftist one-party revolutions must harbor antidemocratic or "Stalinist" sentiments. But to applaud social revolutions is not to oppose political freedom. To the extent that revolutionary governments construct substantive alternatives for their people, they increase human options and freedom. There is no such thing as freedom in the abstract.
~ Michael Parenti
The bottom line is that Robert always wished to be, and was, free to think for himself and to make his own political choices. Commitments have to be put in perspective to be understood, and the failure to do that was the most damaging characteristic of the McCarthy period. The most relevant political fact about Robert Oppenheimer was that in the 1930s he was devoted to working for social and economic justice in America, and to achieve this goal he chose to stand with the left.
~ Kai Bird
Jeremy Corbin is a little too liberal for me.
~ Cenk Uygur
I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian. I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point. And socialist, well yes, of course, it's not a fashionable word, but I am very much of the Left.
~ Ruth Rendell