Dave Sim Quotes

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.

I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.

In any society, there will be the whole spectrum of views. You will get the extremists on the far right and also the far left.

Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Classless Society waiting for the midwife, why take a torch to the stable to assist at the birth of a puppy? Even if the puppy is pedigree. On this question I am unable to make up my mind.

The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity.

A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.

I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over.

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

Moderates behind whom Red Fascism spreads.

The War on Terrorism does not distinguish between ordinary terrorists and those espousing a political ideology.

We don't like to deal with people who are trying to kill the revolution. You need to hire a Republican!

Let no one say ... that radicalism is the exaggeration of liberalism; no, it is its antipodes, its extreme opposite. Radicalism is nothing more than an exaggeration of despotism; and never has despotism taken a more odious form.

As a partisan Republican, I am concerned by the fact that the John Birch Society has picked my party ... as a vehicle to promulgate its monolithic philosophy. There are three organizations in this country which give me grave doubts as a citizen: the Communist Party, the Ku Klux Klan, and the John Birch Society.

People at the political extremes have an advantage over the rest of us. Only they seem to know exactly who and what is wrong with America and precisely what policies and programs should be adopted to fix it.

The fusion of elements united solely by a faith in violence--the lack of a precise political and moral program--the fact that most of the enthusiastic rank and file of Fascism boasted of impersonating "dynamic action" and not doctrinally defined principles--all combined to create a situation in which the Fascist movement evolved quickly, and without the knowledge of the majority of its followers, into an instrument of reaction.

We will have a government where liberals will stay in power until they get radical and conservatives will have the power until they get reactionary.

Congress is good at two things: Doing nothing and over-reacting.

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left.

Well-intentioned liberalism always leads to progressivism. There's no choice there. Once that action is taken the only thing you can run on is totalitarianism - you have no choice.

Once in a while, we need the hard Left to pipe up.