Left Wing Quotes - Page 2

• I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left wing? How did that become "leftie?" That doesn't seem leftie to me. That seems common sense.

  Nick Hanauer

  Thinking, Wings, Ideas

  Source: gawker.com

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• Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my deepest concerns today is that the libertarian socialist core will be eroded by fashionable, post- modernist, spiritualist, mystic individualism.

  Murray Bookchin

  Views, Wings, Libertarian

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• Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy.

  Klaus Fuchs

  Philosophy, Wings, People

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• I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.

  Guy Ritchie

  Wings, Motivated, Used

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

  Samuel West

  Art, Wings, Right Wing

  "Best of the West". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2007.

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• I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.

  Evan Davis

  Swings, Views, Way

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• The trouble with politics and political coverage today is that there's too much liberal bias.... There's too much tilt toward the left-wing agenda. Too much apology for liberal policy failures. Too much pandering to liberal candidates and causes.

  William Kristol

  Apology, Wings, Political

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• I have never in my life encountered a religion as oppressive, cold, and stiff as Progressivism. I've never known a faith more eager to burn heretics at the stake. Even a fundamentalist Iranian Muslim would flinch if he came face to face with a western liberal's rigid dogmatism. I imagine that even a Saudi Arabian Islamic cleric would take one look at how American left wingers react when anyone deviates ever so slightly from their established orthodoxy, and say to himself, 'man, these people REALLY need to chill.

  Matt Walsh

  Islamic, Men, People

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• I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

  Marianne Faithfull

  War, Wings, Empires

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• Life didn't just happen to them. They experienced life at a deeper level than I had ever experienced it. I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.

  Larry Brilliant

  Heart, Wings, People

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• Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and the reactionary section of the intelligentsia attached to them. The leading force in our revolution is the industrial proletariat. Our closest friends are the entire semi-proletariat and petty bourgeoisie. As for the vacillating middle bourgeoisie, their right wing may become our enemy and their left wing may become our friend - but we must be constantly on our guard and not let them create confusion within our ranks.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Class, Wings

  "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works".

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• Each team has a net liner, a goalie, and five attackers. We have two defenders on the ice and three forwards. Our forwards are left winger, centre man and a right winger. We work as units of five. In ice hockey you go out and you go as hard as you can for 35 to 45 seconds, then we change.

  Gerad Adams

  Team, Hockey, Men

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is "sexier" than communism.

  Susan Sontag

  Reality, Wings, Erotic

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• A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.

  Milos Zeman

  Wings, Idiot, Dangerous

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• The Soviet Union tried to sell a set of ideas, very left wing, and focus on so-called peace. Vladimir Putin doesn't care who helps him to push his agenda. He is equally comfortable with the politics of Nigel Farage and Corbyn in Britain, Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon in France. Whether far left or nationalist, he doesn't care, as long as they support chaos and destruction and the undermining of existing institutions.

  Garry Kasparov

  Long, Focus, Support

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• What I was trying to say in that bit, without saying it out loud, is that there were things - you're right, everything is very politicized these days, literally down to what kind of coffee you drink - that I used to fight with people about. And by the way, not just people like Republicans and Christians, but liberal friends of mine and very radical left-wing types, and alternative, indie types.

  Patton Oswalt

  Christian, Coffee, Fighting

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• With Republicans in control of the Senate for the first time since Barack Obama took office, the president may find it harder to appoint left-wing lawyers to judgeships. Whether he compromises on some of his nominees, including any to the Supreme Court, may depend on the willingness of the new Republican majority to engage the president on judicial philosophy.

  Terry Eastland

  Philosophy, Wings, Office

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• I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left wing associations.

  Jerry Falwell

  Kings, Rights, Wings

  "Ministers and Marches". Jerry Falwell's sermon in Lynchburg, Virginia, 1965.

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• And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

  Nancy Mitford

  Wings, People, Mind

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.111, Vintage

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• Don't believe those who claim that only left wing parties really care about employment.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Party, Believe, Wings

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• All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are 'enlightened' all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our 'enlightenment,' demands that the robbery shall continue.

  George Orwell

  Country, Struggle, Party

  George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

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• I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.

  Andre Dubus

  College, Men, Wings

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• While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.

  John Boehner

  Law, Wings, Judging

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• Left wing.
  Right wing.
  Chicken wing.

  Woody Guthrie

  Wings, Chickens, Right Wing

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• [The Freedom Writer] is full of disinformation ... typical of left-wing journals like yours, you print anything you can find that is derogatory to those with whom you disagree - without checking the facts.

  Tim LaHaye

  Wings, Scary, Typical

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