{"id":206,"date":"2016-05-13T08:01:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T13:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2016-05-13T08:01:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T13:01:44","slug":"Famous_Quotes_about_America_182_Quotations_8","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=206","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes about America (182 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.<\/div>\n
Umberto Eco<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.<\/div>\n
Woodrow T. Wilson<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.<\/div>\n
Raymond Chandler<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.<\/div>\n
Conor Cruise O'Brien<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.<\/div>\n
Daniel J. Boorstin<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.<\/div>\n
Octavio Paz<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth… the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.<\/div>\n
Susan Sontag<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.<\/div>\n
Henry Ward Beecher<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The rising power of the United States in world affairs requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts and criticism. Our job in this age, as I see it, is not to serve as cheerleaders for our side in the present world struggle but to help the largest possible number of people to see the realities of the changing and convulsive world in which American policy must operate.<\/div>\n
James Reston<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.<\/div>\n
Allan Bloom<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.<\/div>\n
Harold Rosenberg<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.<\/div>\n
Eric Hoffer<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.<\/div>\n
Theodore Roosevelt<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, ''The trouble with this country is…''<\/div>\n
Sinclair Lewis<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.<\/div>\n
Louis Kronenberger<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.<\/div>\n
Gertrude Stein<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic sound of a gramophone.<\/div>\n
Vance Palmer<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.<\/div>\n
Alexis De Tocqueville<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.<\/div>\n
Oscar Wilde<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Their manners, speech, dress, friendships, — the freshness and candor of their physiognomy — the picturesque looseness of their carriage — their deathless attachment to freedom — their aversion to anything indecorous or soft or mean — the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one state by the citizens of all other states — the fierceness of their roused resentment — their curiosity and welcome of novelty — their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy — their susceptibility to a slight — the air they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors — the fluency of their speech — their delight in music, a sure symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul — their good temper and open-handedness — the terrible significance of their elections, the President's taking off his hat to them, not they to him — these too are unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it.<\/div>\n
Walt Whitman<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Quotations 141 to 160 of 182<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFirst<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t< Previous<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNext ><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLast<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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