Left wing Quote by Roger Scruton

“In Die Welt von Gestern, Stefan Zweig attributed the decline of civil order in Europe to the myth of progress.7 In all the ideologies…

— Roger Scruton

Look at what left-wing movements were like in the 19th century - they were all about progress, the engineering of the world, the reshaping…

— Roger Scruton

“Oakeshott believed that civil association has been increasingly displaced by enterprise, under pressure from political elites, managers, parties and ideologues. It is not only…

— Roger Scruton

“We should not be surprised therefore if British conservative thinkers – notably Hume, Smith, Burke and Oakeshott – have tended to see no tension…

— Roger Scruton

“The idea of the “people,” as the fount of legitimate order ... has been of some service to the left-liberal intellectual in our time,…

— Roger Scruton

When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment

— Roger Scruton

Don't you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that…

— Woody Allen

As a broadly left-wing, environmentally aware urban believer in anthropogenic global warming, I am all for a total ban on motor vehicles.

— Giles Coren

Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually…

— Ha-Joon Chang

I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is

— Pat Metheny

I alienated myself from the academic world almost entirely because it's a left-wing world.

— Shelby Steele

At Rennes, I played more down the left wing, but also down the right and sometimes in midfield. At Dortmund, it was the same:…

— Ousmane Dembele