“Many of the new inventions and technology diluted the value of Nature and our human nature. Capital gains became more important than the proposed definition of the American Dream. I believe that if my parents’ generation had known of the consequences, they would have made some different choices.”
Source: Living Like The Future Matters: The Evolution of a Soil to Soul Entrepreneur
“Holding onto a vision for a better future, many of our parents hid the burdens of their past from their innocent children. Clueless and spoiled, we expected to have everything we wanted.”
Source: Living Like the Future Matters: The Evolution of a Soil to Soul Entreprenuer
“Every American suffers from the fantasy that the “American Dream” is about to touch them with its magical golden scepter and elevate them into the stars, where they will live as gods. Of course, most of them end up in the gutter, in the company of every possible demon.”
Source: National Capitalism: How to Save America
“The American Dream can ring hollow if a man is left to enjoy the mountaintop alone. -
Bew White”
Source: A Summer Classic: The Bew White Story
“Wanna study a superpower, study America. Wanna study dysfunctional power, still study America.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“It was a little past nine o'clock when I checked my watch at the entrance to his apartment building, a gray two-story factory for manufacturing hundreds of tired replicas of the American Dream. All the inmates imagined their dreams to be unique, but they were merely tin reproductions of a lost original.”
Source: The Sympathizer
“The American dream of the Horatio Alger success story is completely meaningless to the Indian. To him it is simply an indication of a struggle for material values. what we have failed to take to him is our spiritual values. We must show by our behavior that we believe in equality and in justice and that our religion teaches faith and love and charity to our fellow men. Here is where each of us has a job to do that must be done at home, because we can lose the battle on the soil of the United States just as surely as we can lose it in any one of the other countries in the world.”
Source: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“Well, the vast majority of people don't steal to get ahead. A lot of people work their way up from nothing without stealing."
"I don't think a lot of people work their way up from nothing, ever. People like you want to believe it happens all the time. But it really doesn't.”
Source: The Lager Queen of Minnesota
“I'm taking a fresh look at the American Dream and who gets to live it and who doesn't.”
Source: River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey
“You have to go head, even if no one goes with you.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!