Right Wing Quotes - Page 8

• There is one great truth in western politics that I have been able to see, and that is this: The more left wing your political ideals are, the more naive a person you are likely to be. The more right wing your political ideals are, the more evil a person you are likely to be. Choosing a political standpoint is largely a matter of deciding which failure as a human you are more comfortable with.

  Derek R. Audette

  Wings, Evil, Political

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• I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.

  Denise Mina

  Wings, Guy, Fiction

  "Murder she wrote - and plenty of it: Denise Mina on her career". Interview with Peter Guttridge, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2007.

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• I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people may still think that alternative energy is some sort of hippie mumbo-jumbo, you know. I think there's still a strong movement to continue to drill and continue to find these other sources of oil within the country.

  Jesse Metcalfe

  Country, Strong, Hippie

  "Jesse Metcalfe talks a new ‘Dallas’ generation and … methane?" by Geoff Berkshire, uproxx.com. June 13, 2012.

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• But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.

  Al Franken

  Party, Wings, Media

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• I don't use any of the terminology like 'left wing' and 'right wing.' I use language like 'godly' and 'holiness.'

  Phil Robertson

  Godly, Wings, Holiness

  "'Duck Dynasty' star Phil Robertson talks values, family in new book". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. May 7, 2013.

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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, Left Wing

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

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• It is very clear from the historical record that without British help neither Wahhabism nor the House of Saud would be in existence today. Wahhabism is a British-inspired fundamentalist movement in Islam. Through its defense of the House of Saud, the US also supports Wahhabism directly and indirectly regardless of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Wahhabism is violent, right wing, ultra-conservative, rigid, extremist, reactionary, sexist, and intolerant.

  Andre Vltchek

  Wings, House, Support

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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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• I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

  Tony Benn

  Funny, Strong, Humor

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• When I was a student at university, I went to live in Budapest. I grew up in the countryside. In those days, I had a conservative right-wing way of thinking. At university, I met the other young people with whom I made this party, Jobbik. These friends grew to include more people, and as more people with these extreme-right views joined us, Jobbik became more and more extreme right. I was young, in my 20s, and we could continuously identify with these ideas.

  Csanad Szegedi

  Party, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

  Anthony Holden

  Wings, Literature, Pressure

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• Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

  Erica Jong

  Law, Wings, Abortion

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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• The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in schools, and exalting it as freedom.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Hate, Teaching, School

  Patricia J. Williams (1995). “The Rooster's Egg”, p.51, Harvard University Press

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• In Quebec, in spite of police violence and threats, thousands of students demonstrated for months against a former right-wing government that wanted to raise tuition and cut social protections. These demonstrations are continuing in a variety of countries throughout the globe and embrace an investment in a new understanding of the commons as a shared space of knowledge, debate, exchange and participation.

  Henry Giroux

  Country, Cutting, Police Violence

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If I was a supervillain, I'd create this universal, cosmic rule where every time an old, shitty, right-wing white man says something unsavory about a young woman, he would just get the clap immediately.

  Jack Antonoff

  Men, White Man, Wings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Even if parties associated with right wing populism don't win, they push other parties, the centrist parties, towards their position. So they do have an influence even if they're not in power.

  Branko Milanovic

  Party, Winning, Influence

  Source: gawker.com

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• I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.

  Al Franken

  Lying, Media, Wings

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• The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

  Christopher Lasch

  Wings, Religion And Politics, Response

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• I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization.

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, Wings, Organization

  "Jennings: Criticism 'goes with the territory'". Interview with Peter Johnson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. August 9, 2003.

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• I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.

  John Lydon

  Wings, Wife, Doe

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• When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Media, Wings, Trying

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• Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.

  Hugh Hefner

  Christian, Wings, Feminist

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• My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.

  Thom Yorke

  Life, Dad, Fighting

  "Thom Yorke’s View from the Stage". Interview with Judy Bond, www.lionsroar.com. November 1, 1998.

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• He laid into me with the same gusto as a right-wing political pundit on the O'Reilly Factor defending President's Bush right to vacation six days out of the week.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Humor, Vacation

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think I'm an angry person. I think I'm a person who's angry. I'm angry at the Bush administration; I'm angry at the right wing media. And by that I don't mean the media is right wing. I mean, there is a part of the media that's not the mainstream media. That's Fox, that is 'The Wall Street Journal' editorial page.

  Al Franken

  Wall, Mean, Thinking

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