“The Left is acting like a young child, saying 'I want peace'... A child says 'I want candy right away,' an adult takes all of the factors into account and understands who he's dealing with.” WantChildrenYoungLeftActingAdultsAccountsFactorsCandyYoung Children Author:Ehud Barak
“People are stereotypes, they are caricaturized. It comes from both sides of the political aisle, it comes from the press. It's all about conflict, it's all about personality, and there are huge stakes in the policies that are being debated, and I think there's a hunger amongst a very significant, maybe even a critical mass of Americans, clustered on the left, right, and center, to have an adult conversation about how we're going to solve these problems ... but it's not for the fainthearted.” PeopleThinkingProblemPoliticalLeftSidesPolicyHugePersonalityConversationConflictMassAdultsPressesHungerSolveCriticalSignificantStakesStereotypeBoth SidesAisleCritical Mass Author:Hillary Clinton
“I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.” KnowsChildrenDifferentHateLeftNaturalEnvironmentListeningAdultsAbusePrejudiceSafetyTolerancePianoNonsenseDevicesTraitsRidingBikeNormGangAmusedNatural EnvironmentArmchairs Author:Josh Lieb
“From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I am fearful of the harvest. The younger generation is further to the left than most adults realize. The old concepts of our Founding Fathers are scoffed and jeered at by young moderns whose goals appear to be the destruction of integrity and virtue, and the glorification of pleasure, thrills, and self-indulgence.” PeopleYearsSelfPhilosophyYoungFatherLeftGoalRealizingPleasureVirtueGenerationsCollegeIntegrityConceptsAdultsDestructionGradesFearfulHarvestFoundingIndulgenceOur Founding FathersMarxistYounger GenerationSelf IndulgenceGlorification Author:Ezra Taft Benson
“We're not trying to raise good kids. We're trying to raise kids who become great adults. That's a very different thing. We all know parents who had kids that when they turned 18 left the house and went nuts.” KnowsTryingDifferentKidsHouseLeftParentAdultsRaisesDifferent ThingsNuts Author:Andy Andrews
“In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were surprised: They expected to hear stories of broken relationships and wounded feelings. But the top reason given by young adults was that they did not get answers to their questions.” PeopleReasonStoriesFeelingsYoungLeftGivenAnswersStudyDoubtBrokenAdultsAskingResponseYoung AdultExpectedWoundedResearchersUnansweredAsking WhyBroken Relationship Author:Nancy Pearcey
“Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid style in American politics. He is the un-Edwards and un-Huckabee - an adult aiming to reform the real world rather than an adolescent fantasizing mock-heroic 'fights' against fictitious villains in a left-wing cartoon version of this country.” WorldRealCountryMightFightingLeftStyleAdultsWingsClintonVersionsReformBarackPresidentialReal WorldHeroicVillainCartoonAmerican PoliticsClosingMockParanoidLeft WingCerebralParentheses Author:George Will
“My interest, perhaps, came out of the trauma of being a young immigrant in this country and constantly feeling my "resident alien" status. I remember trying to learn English on kindergarten playgrounds. I tried hard to be a convincing American but it was a losing battle. I was labeled weird and that tag never left me - all through high school, I was always the oddball. It was not always an easy path - I just had to tell myself that one day, being on the periphery would become an asset (and I think it finally has, as a creative adult).” ThinkingTryingCountryHardFeelingsSchoolRememberYoungLeftEasyInterestCreativePathBattleOne DayLosingHigh SchoolAdultsTraumaAliensImmigrantsAssetsConvincingTagPlaygroundsResidentsKindergartenPeripheryOddballs Author:Porochista Khakpour
“There are so many shocking things. Is it more shocking that there are children sold into slavery in every city in the world and right under our noses or that there are villages in Nepal where there are no children left because they have all been kidnapped for sex trafficking, or that there are generations of slaves in some countries where indentured slavery passes from generation to generation and that kids grow into adults not knowing that another world - another life - exists?” WorldChildrenCountryKidsLeftSexGrowsCitiesKnowingGenerationsAdultsSlaverySlaveNosesVillageNot KnowingShockingAnother WorldAnother LifeTraffickingKidnappedNepalCities In The WorldShocking Things Author:Gillian Anderson
“Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left to themselves. With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases.” IfsWould BeLeftGrowthCivilizationMembersAchievementCapableStandardsAdultsCapacityIncreaseOriginalsCustomsGapsSavagesTribesEldersImmature Book:Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
“I end up liking politicians, both left and right, who talk about political matters as if they are addressing a bunch of adults, as if they are capable of handling both complexity and emotional responsibility.” IfsEndsMatterPoliticalLeftResponsibilityEmotionalPoliticianCapableAdultsBunchComplexityLeft And Right Author:Rachel Maddow
“Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.” PeopleChildrenHelpingHomeLeftRevolutionAdultsRaisesMultipleSmall ChildIndustrial Revolution Author:Martha Beck
“I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.” PeopleIfsLeftWhiteWonderAdultsWingsStartingPursuedRobesLeft WingBigotsKu Klux KlanZealot Author:Clarence Thomas
“Then I'm going?" Kendra asked. The adults in the room exchanged tacit glances before nodding. Then we only have one more problem left to discuss," Seth said. Everyone turned to him. How do I get invited” SaidProblemLeftRoomsAdultsGlancesInvitedNoddingTacit Author:Brandon Mull
“To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.” IfsInspirationalDiesLeftForceEasierBattleConflictEternalAdultsPressureConstantThreatSurrenderSuperiorsMaturityConformityTeensVagueLeft AloneIndecisionUnknowing Book:I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“So you go away from where you were afraid. Some stay; some go; it's a big difference, leaving the humiliations of childhood, the morbid fear. We didn't have much to say to each other, the ones that left and the ones that stayed. Children get shamed by fear but you can't tell the adults that; they don't care. They make children into dead things like they are. If there's something left alive in you, you run. You run from the poor little child on her knees; fear burned the skin off all right; she's still on her knees, dead and raw and tender.” IfsChildrenLittlesStillsBigsCareRunningLeftDifferencesPoorAliveChildhoodAdultsSkinsLeavingDon't CareKneesGoing AwayBurnedHumiliationMorbid Author:Andrea Dworkin
“Such movies are always a danger...falling in love is something most adults have actually experienced...The theme is universal and encourages...unhealthy comparisons...why can't our lives be like that? It's a box left unopened, and its avoidance explains the continued popularity of vampire epics and martial-arts extravaganzas.” ArtLife IsFallLeftLove IsOur LivesDangerAdultsUniversalFalling In LoveBoxesVampireThemeComparisonMartial ArtsPopularityEpicLife Is LikeAvoidanceUnhealthy Author:David Sedaris