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Left Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do.
- In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.
- Rich parents are famous both for miserliness and astonishing longevity. And, when they finally do die, you'll find they've left their estate in inviolate trust…
- A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than…
- What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
- 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.…
- Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
- Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
- Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe,…
- It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- You've left a memory no one can steal, but you also left a heartache that no one can heal. — Nishan Panwar
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- Sometimes hearts are broken by words left unspoken. — Superman
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- You must also remember that the world has God to govern it, and He has not left it to our charity. The… — Swami Vivekananda
- A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his… — Clara Barton