George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians."
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Lefties
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Nick Cohen
Journalist
"Former lefties can make a good living in the media by attacking their ex-comrades - I'd do it myself if the price was right."
Frank Rich
Journalist
"Anything But An Apologist for the Lefties and All of Their Causes."
Abigail Disney
Filmmaker
"I've taken it from feminist friends, and I've taken it from lefty friends too. But that reassures me. If the right is attacking us and the left is attacking us, that's exactly where we want to be."
William Goldman
Screenwriter, Novelist
"I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either."
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"Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth."
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"I always ask my dad why wasn't I a lefty? Even when I was younger I wanted to be lefty. I could have been really good."
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"Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess."
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"Capitalism is a funny name which lefties give to basic freedom."
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