“We act as if a left-wing agenda is something we should disavow. Of course we don't have an agenda, only the bad… — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
“There is nothing truthful, wise, humane, or strategic about confusing hostility to injustice and oppression, which is leftist, with hostility to science… — Michael Albert Copy Share Image
Indian writers in English are rank individualists. Even among the progressives, there is a strain of anti-leftism, or at least a suspicion… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
“The First Mobile, if one is sent, must be warned that unless he is very self-assured, or senile, his pride will suffer.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Oh, you must be part of the underground no one’s ever heard about.” “I don’t belong to any group outside of my… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
“Although immersed in leftism since childhood, he never left the shallow end of the pool. He proved so adept at breaking promises… — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
“The Leftist worldview sees society’s and the world’s great battle as between rich and poor rather than between good and evil. Equality… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“There is a tendency on the left, to think if someone in any way disagrees with the left it must be for… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Left-wing ideas are predicated on Marx’s materialist understanding. Whether or not an individual who espouses Left-wing ideas considers himself a Marxist—and few… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“As I’ve said, there are left-wing believers in nonexistent conspiracies and other fantasies, but they’re not nearly as numerous or influential. During… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The prevalence of anti-patriotic attitudes among liberal intellectuals led some of them to warn their fellow liberals of the consequences of such… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
“The Labour party on the whole has not been a very effective opposition since the election, partly because it spent months and… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked under open skies… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terrorism, the present danger of Soviet advance, the hypocrisy of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Not long ago, having expressed some disagreements in print with an old comrade of long standing, I was sent a response that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“That a work of the imagination has to be “really” about some problem is, again, an heir of Socialist Realism. To write… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The neo-cons, or some of them, decided that they would back Clinton when he belatedly decided for Bosnia and Kosovo against Milosevic,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Conservatives and those on the right are usually willing to settle for thinking themselves correct on political issues; those on the left… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
“Remember one thing as South Africa prepares to go to the polls this week and the world grapples with the ascendancy of… — Mark Gevisser Copy Share Image
“The Left’s great fight is with material inequality, not with evil as normally understood. Thus, the Left has always been less interested… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“The true rightist is not a man who wants to go back to this or that institution for the sake of a… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
“That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Europe, a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image