The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
“That’s the left wing of the CIA debating the right wing of the CIA.”
Discussing CNN’s Crossfire as quoted in Rolling Stone (14 December 1989)
“Not every pigeon is a rat with wings. Not every rat with wings is a dove of peace.”
“Right wing (definition): As with the left wing, half the propulsive force of a flightless bird.”
Abnormally Happy: A Gay Dictionary (1985)
“Left-wing or right-wing. No, I'm not either. I'm kind of middle-of-the-bird.”
Responding to audience question, "Are you left-wing or right-wing?"
Unidentified press conference, 1968
Featured in Pat Paulsen for President (1968), part 3 of 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdjY3TXYJkw&feature=relmfu, 02:49 ff (20:49 ff in full program)
“I am not left winged, I am not right winged. I am straight forward.”
Slogan used on Rita Verdonk's weblog http://www.ritaverdonk.net/ retrieved 25 November 2007.
So total is the Left's cultural ascendancy that no one likes to mention the socialist roots of fascism (February 16, 2013), The Telegraph
2010s
“Theology is ignorance with wings.”
“By words the mind is winged.”
Birds (414 BC)
Context: Informer: My friend, I am asking you for wings, not for words.
Pisthetaerus: It's just my words that gives you wings.
Informer: And how can you give a man wings with your words?
Pisthetaerus: They all start this way. [... ]
Informer: So that words give wings?
Pisthetaerus: Undoubtedly; words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven. Thus I hope that my wise words will give you wings to fly to some less degrading trade.
(tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Birds+1436)
