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Left Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- People who think that they are being exploited should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: Good…
- There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is - compared to what? The second is -…
- When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters is 'control.' That…
- ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize…
- The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.
- The left takes its vision seriously - more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that…
- The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep what you have…
- Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for…
- The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by…
- Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.
- The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find…
- The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.
- Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a…
- If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind…
- Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study…
- Someone once said that a fool can put on his coat better than a wise man can put it on for him. The implications of…
More Left Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes hearts are broken by words left unspoken. — Superman
- 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
- 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