“People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.” PeopleEndsPoliticalLeftVoteElectionPrimitivePolitical History Author:Fatos Nano
“The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.” FactsMightPoliticalLeftUnderstandingCriticismDynamics Author:Ron Fournier
“In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.” FormPoliticalLeftBlackViolenceGroupsStudentsCollegeArmyActivismLiberationRadicalismPanthersBlack PantherWeathermenPolitical Violence Author:Marisha Pessl
“We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.” PeopleBookStatesStoriesShowsWantedPoliticalLeftViewsPovertyWrittenCrimeReaderPoint Of ViewWelfareOfficialsCopiesLayersRealisedBrutalitySwedenWelfare StateCriminality Author:Maj Sjowall
“At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.” ShouldShowsPoliticalBeliefLeftFeltStuffMy OwnShould HaveGrindSnl Author:Al Franken
“If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.” IfsIdeasPoliticalLeftSocialTownsArchitectureRegimesDictatorModernismPolitical SystemsLeft And RightSocial GoodTotalitarian RegimesClassicism Author:Leon Krier
“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.” HumansPersonsHas BeensMatterAblePoliticalEvilPoliticsLeftComfortableIdealsWingsWesternNaiveRight WingStandpointLeft Wing Author:Derek R. Audette
“I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of boldness in using economics no matter where it leads you in political circles, you know, rather than worrying about being left-wing or right-wing or biased or this or that.” ThinkingKnowsMatterPoliticalCultureLeftSidesWorryHealthyEconomicsClaimsWingsCirclesCertaintySkepticismBoldnessRight WingBiasedLeft WingAisle Author:David Plotz
“I think that being liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncomitted to a cause but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen.” IfsThinkingPoliticalLeftCausesCasesPositionDefinitionsBe GoodMeritExamining Author:Walter Cronkite
“Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.” YearsLongHas BeensSeemsPoliticalPoliticsLeftDemocracyPoliticianConcernedGreedCorruptionVotingNerdElection DayArmourPoliticians And PoliticsFunny PoliticianI Hate PoliticsBad Politics Author:Richard Armour
“We have come to discover what we suspect is a new political mindset emerging among a younger generation of political leaders socialized on Internet communications. Their politics are less about right versus left and more about centralized and authoritarian versus distributed and collaborative.” PoliticalLeftLeaderGenerationsCommunicationInternetMindsetSuspectsVersusEmergingPolitical LeadersYounger Generation Book:The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World Source: The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.” LifeMatterPoliticalPoliticsLeftSeriousPoliticianConclusionSeriousnessFunny PoliticalPoliticians And PoliticsPolitics FunnyFunny Politician Author:Charles de Gaulle
“The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.” PeoplePoliticalLeftImagination Author:Amos Oz
“In my work, you get used to criticisms. Of course you do, because there are a lot of people trying to get you down, but I always cheer up immensely if one is particularly wounding because I think well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. That is why my father always taught me: never worry about anyone who attacks you personally; it means their arguments carry no weight and they know it.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsTryingWellsMeanPoliticalUsedCoursesFatherLeftWorryTaughtArgumentCriticismWeightCheerCheer UpPolitical Arguments Author:Margaret Thatcher
“My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.” PoliticalLeftBitsAspectSentimentsSocialist Author:Adolf Eichmann
“A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.” IfsHumansHas BeensSaidRealSometimesAmericaPoliticalLeftCitiesGenerationsCrimeCivilizationRemainsViolentPeacefulProductiveStatisticsProgressiveStrictHuman HistoryProsperousForeigners Author:L. Neil Smith
“People are stereotypes, they are caricaturized. It comes from both sides of the political aisle, it comes from the press. It's all about conflict, it's all about personality, and there are huge stakes in the policies that are being debated, and I think there's a hunger amongst a very significant, maybe even a critical mass of Americans, clustered on the left, right, and center, to have an adult conversation about how we're going to solve these problems ... but it's not for the fainthearted.” PeopleThinkingProblemPoliticalLeftSidesPolicyHugePersonalityConversationConflictMassAdultsPressesHungerSolveCriticalSignificantStakesStereotypeBoth SidesAisleCritical Mass Author:Hillary Clinton
“We on the left have forgotten that the question is not how do you get good people to rule, most people who rule are mediocre at best and usually venal. The question is how do we make those in power frightened of us and not be seduced by formal political processes.” PeoplePoliticalLeftProcessForgottenFrightenedGood PeopleFormalMediocre Author:Chris Hedges
“I didn't leave Africa, I left Nigeria, and for political reasons. But ... I've never, never left Africa, and I certainly never left what it means to be Ibo. That is something you carry with you.” MeanReasonPoliticalLeftNigeria Author:Chris Abani
“Prosperity and penury do not turn on gyno-centric and gay matters. But leftist statists and libertarians of the left place these wedge issues at the forefront of the fight for freedom. [...] Every bit as bad as liberals, "libertarian" political operators are prepared to shed political blood over any imagined sign of bigotry.” MatterPoliticalTurnsFightingLeftBitsIssuesBloodGayPreparedProsperityLibertarianBigotryShedTurn-onLeftistsOperatorsWedgesFighting For Freedom Author:Ilana Mercer
“In our national discourse and in pursuing our national agenda, we must never leave anyone behind. We must reach out to the many who may have been disaffected and left confused by political games, deceit and showmanship. The people first must transcend every level of society.” PeopleFirstsMayHas BeensPoliticalGamesLeftLevelsBehindsConfusedDeceitAgendasReach OutDiscourseShowmanshipPolitical Games Author:Najib Razak
“What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly.” PeoplePoliticalUsedFoundLeftTermInterestIssuesSpectrumPolitical Spectrum Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“We are hammered 24/7 with the "far left" and "far right" points of view, pounding us, beating us upside the head with purely political theatrics in order to make us believe it's real. It's not real. It's a con!” BelieveRealPoliticalOrderLeftViewsPoint Of ViewHammeredTheatrics Author:Bruce McDonald
“The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect only those technologies that prove functional for a culture and can be integrated into everyday life are 'left over.' However, the perception of what is functional, successful and useful is itself the product of social and cultural--and last but not least--political and economic processes. Selection processes and abandoned products and product forms are usually not discussed.” FactsLastsFormPoliticalCultureLeftSocialProcessTechnologySuccessfulEconomicProductsProvePerceptionEverydayAbandonedEntityTechnologicalEveryday LifeSelectionInabilityIntegratedRetrospectArtifacts Author:Johannes Grenzfurthner
“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.” PoliticalLeftGayWingsLifestyleTraditionalIdeologyBiasHomosexualPreferenceLeft Wing Author:Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz
“Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint-- being in the middle-- usually brings about seclusion and isolation! But now I do not mind it anymore and, instead, I work more and more in my self-made solitude!” MindKindMadeSelfPoliticalLeftMiddleSolitudeIsolationEthicalStandpointSelf MadeSeclusion Author:Javad Alizadeh
“I think the process of being hopeful, being really opportunity oriented, not just in rhetoric but in action, showing that no one get's left behind, not just by talking about it but by doing it, I think is really a key [to political success].” ThinkingActionPoliticalOpportunityLeftProcessBehindsTalkingKeysHopefulBeing RealRhetoricLeft Behind Author:John Kasich
“I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayBelieveHas BeensGovernmentPoliticalLeftPartyLessonsIraqPolitical PartiesInvasion Author:William Hague
“It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money ran out - were always better than ours since the city was the political capital of the country, as well as the artistic and literary one. In L.A. we've always been slightly sealed off from real life. It's no accident that two of our most interesting directors, Woody Allen and Bob Altman, are more or less settled in the real world.” WorldWellsTwoRealCountryPoliticalLeftInterestingCitiesNew YorkTelevisionTvsDirectorsHollywoodTheaterAccidentsLondonReal LifePityArtisticRanBritainReal WorldBobMost InterestingWoodyLive Tv Author:Gore Vidal
“If you work through the existing structures you are going to be corrupted. By working through political system that poisons the atmosphere, even the progressive organizations, you can see it even nowadays in the US, where people on the "Left" are all caught in the electoral campaign and get into fierce arguments about should we support this third party candidate or that third party candidate. This is a sort of little piece of evidence that suggests that when you get into working through electoral politics you begin to corrupt your ideals.” PeopleIfsShouldLittlesPoliticalLeftPartySupportPiecesEvidenceIdealsArgumentOrganizationThirdsStructureCaughtCampaignsAtmosphereCandidatesPoisonProgressiveFiercePolitical SystemsThird Parties Author:Howard Zinn
“People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by today's busybody rich, who feed their own egos by bankrolling political crusades on the left which hurt the very people that the left claims to care about -- working people, minorities, and children.” PeopleKindChildrenDoneCareTodayPoliticalUsedLeftHurtRichEgoClaimsHarmComplainingMinoritiesIdleCrusadesBeing DoneBusybodies Author:Thomas Sowell
“Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.” PoliticalLeftLibertyViolenceThreatVicesDefenseFalsehoodExtremismDuplicityPolitical Extremism Author:George W. Romney