Left Wing Quotes

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Andrea Dworkin
“Capitalism is not wicked or cruel when the commodity is the whore; profit is not wicked or cruel when the alienated worker is a female piece of meat; corporate bloodsucking is not wicked or cruel when the corporations in question, sell cunt; racism is not wicked or cruel when the black cunt or yellow cunt or red cunt or Hispanic cunt or Jewish cunt has her legs splayed for any man's pleasure; poverty is not wicked or cruel when it is the poverty of dispossessed women who have only themselves to sell; violence by the powerful against the powerless is not wicked or cruel when it is called sex; slavery is not wicked or cruel when it is sexual slavery; torture is not wicked or cruel when the tormented are women, whores, cunts. The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too.”
Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women

Thomas Sowell
“The concept of “microaggression” is just one of many tactics used to stifle differences of opinion by declaring some opinions to be “hate speech,” instead of debating those differences in a marketplace of ideas. To accuse people of aggression for not marching in lockstep with political correctness is to set the stage for justifying real aggression against them.”
Thomas Sowell

Maximilien Robespierre
“It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in the hands of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed ... The government of the revolution is liberty's despotism against tyranny. Is force made only to protect crime”
Maximilien Robespierre

Margaret Thatcher
“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

Billy Graham
“I'm not for the left wing or the right wing--I'm for the whole bird.”
Billy Graham

“They [feminists] share the instinct for tyranny and destruction - and they are filled with self-loathing. In the end, leftist feminists yearn to submit to, and submerge themselves within, a despotic monolith. Because they despise their own society and are bent on its destruction, they cannot concede that adversarial cultures may be more evil, because that would legitimize their own host society - and they can't allow that. It would rob them of the moral indignation -- and the identity of being victims -- that lies at the foundation of their politics of hate.”
Jamie Glazov

“Think about the precedents you are setting. It's the Left that runs the world on reckless emotionalism. Don't join.”
Michelle Malkin

T.J. Kirk
“We act as if a left-wing agenda is something we should disavow. Of course we don't have an agenda, only the bad guys have an agenda! Yes, you're right, right now, only the bad guys have an agenda. That's why they're winning.”
T.J. Kirk

“Nella cultura italiana il nulla osta delle sinistre è quello che garantisce la democraticità di un'azione repressiva, la sua legittimazione e legalità. Il no della sinistra ricondurrebbe lo stesso atto repressivo sotto il segno di una intollerabile violenza borghese. Anche se dall'altra parte ci fosse Al Quaeda.”
Francesco Cossiga, La versione di K. Sessant'anni di controstoria

“In Western democracies, not only do elected governments, who were elected to represent the people, not favour their own citizens, society, fueled by left-wing mainstream media, has made it racist and bigoted to suggest they should.”
Robert Black

“It's been said before, the left censors what they deem offensive, and the right censors what they deem obscene.”
Razorblade Kandy

Osamu Dazai
“Before long a student at the art class was to initiate me into the mysteries of drink, cigarettes, prostitutes, pawnshops and left-wing thought. A strange combination, but it actually happened that way.”
Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“If you can't put your values into your vote, we don't have a democracy.”
Dr. Jill Stein

Michel Houellebecq
“La sinistra aveva sempre avuto la capacità di far accettare riforme antisociali che, se fossero venute da destra, sarebbero state vigorosamente respinte.”
Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

Jim   Lowe
“Your family, the O’Neills, guns, IRA?’

‘No, Unionists.’

‘Fuck! You’re not even on the right side. If it weren’t so fucking dangerous, it’d be funny!”
Jim Lowe, New Reform

William Dean Howells
“What does that one-armed Dutchman do on this book?"
"What does he do?" March echoed, as people are apt to do with a question that is mandatory and offensive.
"Yes, sir, what does he do? Does he write for it?"
"I suppose you mean Lindau," said March. He saw no reason for refusing to answer Dryfoos's demand, and he decided to ignore its terms. "No, he doesn't write for it in the usual way. He translates for it; he examines the foreign magazines, and draws my attention to anything he thinks of interest. But I told you about this before—"
"I know what you told me, well enough. And I know what he is. He is a red-mouthed labor agitator. He's one of those foreigners that come here from places where they've never had a decent meal's victuals in their lives, and as soon as they get their stomachs full, they begin to make trouble between our people and their hands. There's where the strikes come from, and the unions and the secret societies. They come here and break our Sabbath, and teach their atheism. They ought to be hung! Let 'em go back if they don't like it over here. They want to ruin the country."
March could not help smiling a little at the words, which came fast enough now in the hoarse staccato of Dryfoos's passion. "I don't know whom you mean by they, generally speaking; but I had the impression that poor old Lindau had once done his best to save the country. I don't always like his way of talking, but I know that he is one of the truest and kindest souls in the world; and he is no more an atheist than I am. He is my friend, and I can't allow him to be misunderstood.”
William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes

“For perhaps these attacks on feminism can clearly be seen in a wider context of anti-intellectualism, and our era's prevailing disappointment with and rejection of the usefulness of ideology. While the only political ideology to truly thrive internationally over the last decade or so is that of the neo-conservative Right - in Australia, economic rationalism is its proudest achievement - the ideological regimes of the Left (communism, socialism) have faltered. As feminism has traditionally been associated with left-wing thinking and activism, its philosophical fall from grace could perhaps have been better anticipated.”
Virginia Trioli, Generation F: Why we still struggle with sex and power

Abhijit Naskar
“One cannot walk with just the left foot or just the right foot, one needs both.”
Abhijit Naskar

Thomas Piketty
“Every human society must justify its inequalities: unless reasons for them are found, the whole political and social edifice stands in danger of collapse.”
Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology

“Nothing appeals to political leftists like government-mandated mediocrity.”
Anonymous Conservative, The Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics: How Conservatism and Liberalism Evolved Within Humans, Third Edition

“The majority of people are not fully committed to either the right or the left. Nor either to censorship or to absolute freedom of speech. People are too caught up in the daily struggle for survival to pour a lot of energy into ideology.”
Wendy McElroy, XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography

Avi Tuschman
“...politics isn't -just about money-, but also about who gains authority over a population's minds and bodies. Controlling education, healthcare, economic policies, and morally controversial laws can influence how people recombine and transmit DNA in various ways, at different rates, and to what consequence. The rise of power of political extremists greatly magnifies this control over both genetic and economic resources.”
Avi Tuschman, Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us

Avi Tuschman
“In practice, self-deceptive altruism allows leftist dictators to extol the egalitarian virtues of their ideology, while systematically violating every egalitarian promise.”
Avi Tuschman, Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us

Abhijit Naskar
“We don't need to lean left or right, we just need to lean loveside as one community.”
Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

Ralph Nader
“If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.”
Ralph Nader

“... symbolic capitalists are professionals who traffic in symbols and rhetoric, images and narratives, data and analysis, ideas and abstraction (as opposed to workers engaged in manual forms of labor tied to physical goods and services). For instance, people who work in fields like education, science, tech, finance, media law, consulting, administration, and public policy are overwhelmingly symbolic capitalists.”
Musa al-Gharbi, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite

“Free speech is when the left-wing dislike but allow the words and thoughts of the right-wing, and the right-wing dislike but allow the words and thoughts of the left-wing. What we are experiencing now in Western democracies, is the left-wing not only disallowing the words and thoughts of the right-wing, but also the words and thoughts of the moderates. Any such imbalance is dangerous to society.”
Robert Black

“The police in the UK are too scared to act in case they are labelled racists. This is what uncontrolled immigration does to societies. It's the same in Europe. The best way to destroy a culture is to make it multicultural.”
Robert Black

“The left don't attack racism, they attack the race, which of course is the definition of racism. They have this idea that no matter what is done or said to white people, it is not racism. That is their mentality.”
Robert Black

“The problem with the woke people, the social justice warriors, or the left, is that they consider Islam to be a race, and therefore to criticize Islam is racist. In fact, Islam is a religion, which anyone can join, or be indoctrinated into, men, women, and children, unless you are gay of course, because then you would be murdered.”
Robert Black

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