Left Quotes | radical journal | Edited by Saswat Pattanayak

Liberals

Thu, 15 May 2008 05:19:52 -0400

We must become the change we wish to see in the world - Mahatma Gandhi

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living - Mother Jones

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime - Jack Kerouac

If you obey all the rules, you will miss the fun - Katherine Hepburn

What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes - Timothy Virkkala

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire

Beware the man of a single book - Bertrand Russell

Prejudices are what fools use for reason - Voltaire

Things do not change, We change - Henry Thoreau

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism - Thomas Jefferson

Humanity's first sin was faith; the first virtue was doubt - Mike Huben

Only the educated are free - Epictetus

There are no passengers on spaceship Earth. We are all crew - Marshall McLuhan

You must do the thing you think you cannot do - Eleanor Roosevelt

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people - Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler

Progressives

Wed, 14 May 2008 05:34:35 -0400

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles - Karl Marx

When the rich make war, its the poor that die - Jean-Paul Sartre

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal -- Jesse Jackson

I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion - Lillian Hellman

War, genocide, slavery results not from disobedience, but from obedience - Howard Zinn

You can cage the singer, but not the song - Belafonte

The Labor Movement: The people who brought you the weekend - Bumper Sticker

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression - WEB Du Bois

Hell no, we won't go (to war) - Anti-war slogan during Vietnam

I am too erratic and explosive to be institutionalized -- Har Dayal, 1912

I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted -- Jesse Jackson

People often say with pride, “I’m not interested in politics.” They might as well say, “I’m not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future, or any future.” -- Martha Gellhorn

It comes as as a great shock...to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance...has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you -- James Baldwin

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair -- H.L. Mencken

Conservatives

Tue, 13 May 2008 05:34:54 -0400

I'm telling you that President Bush is doing just what Jesus would have done - Bill O'Reilly

Please get me the names of the Jews. You know, the big Jewish contributors of the Democrats? Could we please investigate these cocksuckers? - Richard Nixon

I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation - George W. Bush

I knew my God was bigger than his [God]. I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an idol - William G Boykin, US Army Lieutenant General, in a speech to evangelical Christians describing his confrontation with a Muslim warlord

The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer - Pat Buchanan, Republican presidential candidate and commentator

I will never apologize for the United States of America. I don't care what the facts are - George H.W. Bush, after a US Navy warship shot down an Iranian commercial airliner killing 290 civilians in 1988