Top 100 Left Wing Quotes

#1. Clearly, the left-wing groups want to use this carbon theme as a tool for wealth redistribution.

Lubos Motl

Left Wing Quotes #7718
#2. Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.

Woody Guthrie

Left Wing Quotes #19845
#3. They [NPR] are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don't want any other point of view. They don't even feel guilty using tax dollars to spout their propaganda. They are basically Air America with government funding to keep them alive.

Roger Ailes

Left Wing Quotes #27294
#4. I'm not a left-wing person. I'm just a person interested in the sustainability of my country.

Robert Redford

Left Wing Quotes #27768
#5. 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

Left Wing Quotes #30881
#6. Left-wing thinking is that difference means unequal; therefore, all difference must be denied

Dennis Prager

Left Wing Quotes #33170
#7. In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions ... We've got to buck that trend

Ed Miliband

Left Wing Quotes #58602
#8. Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of working-class people become so socially acceptable?' His timely answers combine wit, left-wing politics and outrage.

Dwight Garner

Left Wing Quotes #68614
#9. The left-wing thinkers and intellectuals have been more misogynist with me than the army. They can't accept that a young woman is able to think, and they underestimate the intellectual work and study I might have done. They ask who is the man behind me.

Maria De Medeiros

Left Wing Quotes #74040
#10. Don't believe those who claim that only left wing parties really care about employment.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

Left Wing Quotes #74712
#11. the Los Angeles Times surmised that "hippies, property owners, . . . and police are involved in a conflict with social overtones that far transcend Venice." The police hated the hippies, "whom they regarded as wastrels infiltrated by hard-core criminals and left-wing political extremists.

John McMillian

Left Wing Quotes #89703
#12. I'm not left-wing, or right-wing. With only one wing I couldn't fly, and I just couldn't have that.

Dennis Sharpe

Left Wing Quotes #93702
#13. Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.

James D. Watson

Left Wing Quotes #95642
#14. You think we live in Norway or something? Amir Jordan is Pakistani. There's also an Asian guy, some Puerto Ricans, and the starting left wing has, like, carrot-hair. he must be Irish. It's the whole UN over there.

Sarah Ockler

Left Wing Quotes #99775
#15. 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

Left Wing Quotes #139364
#16. 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

Left Wing Quotes #189924
#17. The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.

Franz Halder

Left Wing Quotes #190126
#18. The left and Democrats are relying on the decline the American character that left-wing policies have produced.

Dennis Prager

Left Wing Quotes #196325
#19. Taking responsibility for your own life is not a Left wing idea

Dennis Prager

Left Wing Quotes #216653
#20. Left wing, whacko groups like animal rights activists and right-to-lifers were easy targets for my humor. I enjoyed poking fun at these closed-minded groups.

Bill Bernico

Left Wing Quotes #242935
#21. The right wing walks the walk; the left wing taxes the people that walk the walk

Dennis Prager

Left Wing Quotes #265477
#22. Oregon is outflanking California as the most left wing state in the union.

Bill O'Reilly

Left Wing Quotes #283489
#23. It could fairly be said that the U.S. is increasingly out of step with the rest of the world. As our neighbors to the south elect left-wing or even socialist governments, we are lurching further to the right. As Europe becomes less engaged to the Church, we are becoming more fundamentalist.

Graydon Carter

Left Wing Quotes #302796
#24. Every leader attracts a different type of follower from the left or the right, from the lowest or the highest class. Every leader unwittingly attracts certain stereotypes that fuel their underlying agenda.

Anita B. Sulser PhD

Left Wing Quotes #306186
#25. I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

Clarence Thomas

Left Wing Quotes #312249
#26. Longbottom causes devastation with the simplest spells. We'll be sending what's left of Finch-Fletchley up to the hospital wing in a matchbox.

J.K. Rowling

Left Wing Quotes #314343
#27. Though President Obama was at his smooth and polished best the other night, two aspects of his worldview came into sharper relief - his reflexive hostility toward and misunderstanding of business and his reliable resort to left-wing fables about race relations.

Mona Charen

Left Wing Quotes #331815
#28. The left-wing agenda wants us to think that the reason there was a depression was because the government didn't do anything. That's not true.

Peter Schiff

Left Wing Quotes #334765
#29. Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.

Margaret Thatcher

Left Wing Quotes #343367
#30. The biased left-wing media does what it wants. That's not going to define me or hamper me.

Michele Bachmann

Left Wing Quotes #345505
#31. There are some ideas so stupid that only intellectuals can believe in them, particularly left-wing intellectuals.

Poul Anderson

Left Wing Quotes #351141
#32. A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.

Anna Louise Strong

Left Wing Quotes #352785
#33. The interesting thing for me is, if that had been a left-wing person raising questions, [President Obama] probably would have expressed his anger. Because Obama really does get upset about progressives.

Cornel West

Left Wing Quotes #363266
#34. It doesn't really matter if you're right wing or left wing ... as long you're delicious

Josh Stern

Left Wing Quotes #368372
#35. We've been criticizing these superficial aspects, like whether we are all more distracted. We really need to articulate a defense, a critique, that merges awareness of the technology with a more traditional, progressive, left-wing critique of the market.

Astra Taylor

Left Wing Quotes #376802
#36. For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Left Wing Quotes #378137
#37. I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

Marianne Faithfull

Left Wing Quotes #388156
#38. Feminists often pretend to be angry and offended in order to win debates or, I should say, prevent debates from ever happening. If you can act angry and offended, especially on a college campus, you can shut down the other side using a speech code.

Mike Adams

Left Wing Quotes #404098
#39. After his first training session in heaven, George Best, from the favourite right wing, turned the head of God who was filling in at left back. I would love him to save me a place in his team, George Best that is, not God.

Eric Cantona

Left Wing Quotes #404201
#40. Notionally a left-wing movement, the Anti-Germans were born after the collapse of the Berlin wall. While most Germans rejoiced at the end of the Cold War, the Anti-Germans feared that a united Germany might lead to a fourth Reich - and a return of anti-Semitism.

Luke Harding

Left Wing Quotes #425246
#41. I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.

Miuccia Prada

Left Wing Quotes #440277
#42. The black church is dormant, much of the community is dormant. If the black church is leaning toward the right, much of the community is leaning toward the right. If it is leaning in the left wing direction having repercussions.

Cornel West

Left Wing Quotes #446995
#43. So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

George Orwell

Left Wing Quotes #450157
#44. Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.

Tariq Ali

Left Wing Quotes #484672
#45. I don't think I've ever been either militant or profound as an anti-Fascist. When the issue has come up, when certain things have come up, and I've been called on to express - literally, when I've been cornered, then I take a left-wing stand.

Nelson Algren

Left Wing Quotes #489005
#46. Everyone knows Bob Beckel views, radical left wing, socialist. He says he's a Democrat. But what may surprise you is that he actually has a conservative brother.

Sean Hannity

Left Wing Quotes #499975
#47. The entire European Union is a left-wing dream

Dennis Prager

Left Wing Quotes #508770
#48. My parents are left-wing, and I would describe myself as that. But also, you know what? I wouldn't describe myself as that. Because I don't have to. Because I'm not a political party. Most people are a little bit of each, and we change our mind on various issues.

Daniel Radcliffe

Left Wing Quotes #516940
#49. Left wing, right wing, chicken wing.

Woody Guthrie

Left Wing Quotes #537594
#50. I think, politically, I'm pretty left-wing, and I try to be very neutral in my work.

Sebastian Junger

Left Wing Quotes #543583
#51. I have been left-wing always, from childhood.

Claire Tomalin

Left Wing Quotes #556702
#52. 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

Left Wing Quotes #606122
#53. The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay ... I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

Nancy Mitford

Left Wing Quotes #617011
#54. Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally the same job. The theater is left wing magic and theology is right wing magic.

Jennifer Stone

Left Wing Quotes #644783
#55. When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; and when you're a left-wing sorehead, everything is an occasion to damn the rich.

George Scialabba

Left Wing Quotes #645792
#56. Don't you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here.

Woody Allen

Left Wing Quotes #650763
#57. I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider - very left-wing Democrats living in a heterogeneous working-class neighborhood. I picked up a lot of those values there, and I brought them with me when I showed up in Hollywood.

Ben Affleck

Left Wing Quotes #678065
#58. Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.

P. J. O'Rourke

Left Wing Quotes #681639
#59. The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your Web site and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.

Bill Keller

Left Wing Quotes #686805
#60. too many left-wing student groups treat no one as badly as students of color or women who consider themselves to be classical liberals, libertarians, or conservatives, or who merely disagree with the actions of progressive protesters on campus. They're seen as special kinds of traitors.

Conor Friedersdorf

Left Wing Quotes #691066
#61. Those right or left wing radicals are not our problem.
Those devils that hurt us are long gone.
As men and women, we find the only enemy (with power) we have is our choices to avoid love or cling to it with everything we got!

Matthew Akers

Left Wing Quotes #700355
#62. I mean everybody knows there's something wrong with the world and if you read left wing politicians or deconstructionists or thoughtful historians they will offer thoughtful critiques of our situation. But the question is, you know, the Tolstoyian question; 'What is to be done?'

Terence McKenna

Left Wing Quotes #733099
#63. A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

John Avlon

Left Wing Quotes #742782
#64. People ask me, "Are you right wing or are you left wing?" and I always say, "I'm for the whole bird." A one-winged bird didn't ever get off the ground.

Rick Warren

Left Wing Quotes #745412
#65. Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.

Dennis Prager

Left Wing Quotes #753983
#66. If you say you're a democrat, you're most likely a left-wing liberal. If you're say you're a republican, you're most likely a right-wing millionaire.

Keita Shimizu

Left Wing Quotes #770577
#67. 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

Left Wing Quotes #788409
#68. The Hollywood left insists on painting business persons as arch criminals, even though it's ridiculous. They like to depict free enterprise, capitalism and business leaders as a source of evil and criminality. Somehow they think that will influence enough people to further their left-wing agenda.

James Cook

Left Wing Quotes #792915
#69. When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call 'the Chicago way.'

Thomas Frank

Left Wing Quotes #803789
#70. That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

Kathy Acker

Left Wing Quotes #831575
#71. 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

Left Wing Quotes #840948
#72. Think about the precedents you are setting. It's the Left that runs the world on reckless emotionalism. Don't join.

Michelle Malkin

Left Wing Quotes #856918
#73. It is not the lefty ass-kissers you have to agitate, but the objective left-wing ...

Gudrun Ensslin

Left Wing Quotes #884169
#74. Kennedy's immigration law was enacted during the magical post-1964 period, when Congress had free rein to push through the craziest left-wing legislation since the New Deal. It was the most destructive period in American history.

Ann Coulter

Left Wing Quotes #897707
#75. Your humble correspondent realizes that many readers are left-wing, anti-string-theory fighters. So they probably smoke marijuana and this is my modest attempt to help them.

Lubos Motl

Left Wing Quotes #899883
#76. If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are getting exploited and ripped off, we are not the left.

Peter Singer

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#77. 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

Left Wing Quotes #935442
#78. If left-wing extremism continues to flourish in parts which have natural resources of minerals, the climate for investment would certainly be affected.

Anil Agarwal

Left Wing Quotes #940189
#79. No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.

Dennis Prager

Left Wing Quotes #1009716
#80. The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party.

Gloria Steinem

Left Wing Quotes #1016236
#81. I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.

Marianne Williamson

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#82. There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda.

Pat Robertson

Left Wing Quotes #1022706
#83. You're too sympathetic, the General said. You didn't see the danger in the major because he was fat and you took pity on him for that. Now the evidence shows that you've been willfully blind to the fact that Sonny is not only a left-wing radical but potentially a communist sleeper agent.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Left Wing Quotes #1026299
#84. Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

Barbara Amiel

Left Wing Quotes #1041677
#85. No left wing parties have any respect for liberal economic values; and most centre and right wing parties merely promote a paternalistic stateism. Does it thus fall to the self-reliant students of the ruggedly individualist philosophy of magick to champion a certain measured libertarianism ?

Peter J. Carroll

Left Wing Quotes #1045890
#86. We try it practically every time it comes up, be it amnesty, be it any other issue they want. We try and it gets us nowhere, and it doesn't get us any favors among left-wing-inclined voters, either.

Rush Limbaugh

Left Wing Quotes #1048775
#87. Once I appealed to distinguish words "gay" and "homosexual" ( ... ). "Gayship" is a political homosexualism, a sort of left-wing ideology based on a bias against traditional lifestyle ( ... ). Homosexualism is a sexual preference.

Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz

Left Wing Quotes #1056454
#88. Every Left-wing hysteria of my lifetime has turned out to be untrue. Every single one

Dennis Prager

Left Wing Quotes #1066999
#89. I find violently left-wing people just as irritating and self-righteous as right-wing types.

Stefan Mohamed

Left Wing Quotes #1072366
#90. The New York Times is most definitely a left-wing concern that is openly contemptuous of the conservative, traditional point of view. That is the primary reason the paper may soon dissolve.

Bill O'Reilly

Left Wing Quotes #1080040
#91. There was a knife in his hand. He gave me a tight, mocking smile as he moved to the slab. "Wing or a thigh? Ah, I'm afraid we don't have any thighs left." He sliced into the Fae.

Karen Marie Moning

Left Wing Quotes #1088391
#92. Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left.

Bjorn Lomborg

Left Wing Quotes #1094626
#93. There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.

P. J. O'Rourke

Left Wing Quotes #1123645
#94. I'd prefer a world with no identity politics. I'd prefer we judged people according to reason, logic and evidence instead of barmy left-wing

Milo Yiannopoulos

Left Wing Quotes #1125670
#95. What sickens me about left-wing people, especially the intellectuals, is their utter ignorance of the way things actually happen.

George Orwell

Left Wing Quotes #1140074
#96. Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.

Marc Maron

Left Wing Quotes #1141000
#97. My mum is very political - left wing - and my dad was in the advertising business. They were both from the East Coast: Boston and New York City, respectively.

Joan Cusack

Left Wing Quotes #1169134
#98. When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.

Dennis Prager

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#99. America is a very divided country now. Not only are there red states and blue states, there are now red facts and blue facts. The right-wing believe in creationism. The left in evolution.

John Sayles

Left Wing Quotes #1182098
#100. 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

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