Quotes About Left

People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are the memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.

It's also curious that plastic straws are now a worldwide threat, considering not long ago plastic bags were touted as an environmentally sensitive alternative to paper bags. It seems the bottom line is that both paper and plastic are bad, and the left will limit your access to both.

One discouraging aspect of identity politics is that the left shows they don't really want these problems solved. They will never acknowledge progress in civil rights, women's rights, or overall interracial tolerance. It is not in their political interests to do so because their political power, which they crave above all else, depends on the existence of perpetual classes of victims. Their lust for social justice (read: revenge) is insatiable.

The left is relentlessly assaulting our constitutional system and traditional values and viciously attacking those who resist.

It is to a dramatist, which is to say, to an unfrocked psychoanalyst, stunning that that which has sustained the Left in my generation, its avatar, its prime issue, has been abortion. For, whether or not it is regarded as a woman's right, an unfortunate necessity, or murder, which is to say, irrespective of differing and legitimate political views, to enshrine it as the most important test of the Liberal, is, mythologically, an assertion to the ultimate right of a postreligious Paganism.

The baby boomer generation, my own, is content, if of the Left, to live out our remaining years upon the work and upon the entitlements created by our parents, and to entail the costs upon our children--to tax industry out of the country, to tax wealth away from its historical role and use as the funder of innovation.

While the focus of this book is on the conceptual lines everyday utopias can generate, it also offers an account of recognition in some of its many different forms, for the book treats recognition as a relationship that cannot be assumed. Indeed it is the pervasive failure on the left, and specifically among critical academics, to recognize the conceptual life and promise of everyday utopias within the wider pursuit of a transformative politics, which drives this book.

The middle-class left so delights in being right! And so much of the disenfranchised working class has chosen to be flagrantly, shamelessly wrong.

The happy ending is never universal. Someone is always left behind.

A Left that does nothing achieves nothing.

London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble we had severe energy problems we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.

on West End Avenue. Left pretty much all my possessions and just came to New York to start over again.

Usenet isn't a right. It's a right, a left, and a swift uppercut to the jaw.

Oscar Levant: "What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left.

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.

I came here to escape. You know that, I told him. Why didn't you rescue me from those awful people? I hate people. I told you they wouldn't snub you. I only want to be left in peace. They can't do that. It's snubs or kisses with that bunch. I guessed it would be kisses today.

I believe the regressive Left - the group of people who use illiberal tactics to silence those defending liberal principles - to be the Left's version of the Tea Party.

The old division of Left versus Right is dead. In the Internet age, it's about citizens versus parliamentary relics.

The Left likes to think of itself as the bulwark of progressive liberal individualism, and yet it seeks to progressively coerce others to fund every social program under the sun via majority rule.

The forces that precipitate the vicious cycle of conflict on this planet do not pledge allegiance to either the left or the right or the center. They take advantage of everyone.

We saw Jesse Jackson the victim of a smear campaign. People remember the Dean scream that was used against Howard Dean as a peace candidate who was doing well. So, in many ways, the Democratic Party creates campaigns that fake Left while it moves Right and becomes more corporatist, more militarist, more imperialist.

The Left not only needs a victim class, it has proven adept at inventing new victim classes as a means of exacerbating social conflict.

Murder has foreseeable consequences. When it happens, it is always to distinct individuals, and after it happens, other victims are left behind.

To the Left, Islam, like the rest of the 'Third World,' is one of the many victims of Western Imperialism.