Left Quotes

After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.

There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now.

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left.

The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.

The left has chosen the courts as a major battlefield over social issues.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.

I have girlfriends who've had Botox and been left with lumps in their faces. And the lips, don't even get me started.

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die.

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them.

I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.

What is left when honor is lost?

Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.

And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.