A Quotes
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“America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.”
Source: The Power Elite
“America is a new country, and maybe patriotism helps Americans create unity, since it is a melting pot. But nationalism in Europe has a strong history, as you may know.”
“America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being—confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented—is a vast improvement over the wretched, servile, fatalistic and intolerant human being that traditional societies have always produced.”
Source: What's So Great About America
“America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.”
“America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.”
“America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.”
“America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.”
“America is a place where you can succeed no matter who you are. I am proof of that. But you must work very hard and be willing to endure pain. You must set a goal and win in the marketplace no matter what the air temperature. You must pay the price for success.”
“America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.”
“America is a post-Christian nation only in the sense that we have built a tenement on the foundation of a palace.”
“America is a powerful country and it has earned the right that nobody from the outside can interfere with it or comment on it. We will work with any administration, with any president who will win the support of the American people, if of course they are ready to cooperate with Russia.”
“America is a reactionary society which makes us prone and vulnerable to Hegelian dialectic style manipulation. I’m more concerned about the adversaries within our boarders than I am our adversaries from abroad.”
“America is a really delicate flower that needs a lot of attention.”
“America is a remarkable place in that social attitudes change almost imperceptibly, and then you wake up the next day and they've changed. But they've been changing all the time.”
“America is a series of river crossings; these rivers made us rich. They left the soil that has made us the breadbasket of the world, whether it’s the James or the Ohio, the Mississippi or the Missouri. The great rivers define us and made transportation possible until the railroads revolutionized life in the 1830s and 1840s.”
Source: Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser
“America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history.”
Source: Superpatriotism
“America is a song that sounds the best when we all sing together - at least for a while.”
“America is a sovereign nation. And as President Trump has said all along, made a centerpiece of his campaign from day one, we have to stop the flow of people and drugs over our borders.”
“America is a strong and resilient country. And I know we will succeed, if we put aside partisanship and politics and work together as one nation.”
“America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.”
“America is a third world country. Trailer parks are America's favelas.”
Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America
“America is a tune. It must be sung together.”
Source: Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy
“America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.”
“America is a very divided country now. Not only are there red states and blue states, there are now red facts and blue facts. The right-wing believe in creationism. The left in evolution.”
“America is a very fundamentalist society. It's like Iran in the degree of fanatic religious commitment.”
“America is a very religious nation. Not a mono-religious nation because there are many different strands of belief, but there's something about this nation that inspires people, or perhaps draws people, who are strongly idealistic.”
“America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn't for me.”
“America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.”
“America is a very venal place; everything has to be sold there. You can repackage your own s**t and sell it if it is marketed in the right way. The motivation is to sell. It's so illogical and strange to me. It's such a disposable culture and yet I feel comfortable being American.”
“America is a white man's country.”
“America is a white supremacist bully.”
Source: In Limbo
“America is a willingness of the heart.”
“America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it never lets you down!”
Source: Hooking Up
“America is a young country with an old mentality.”
Source: The Genteel Tradition: Nine Essays
“America is a young country, young and brash and prone to errors. Like teenagers. For all our inherent goodness, we’ve been cursed with bright, shiny object disease and we don’t want a cure. Not now. Not till we get our little taste, till our kids get theirs.”
Source: Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives
“America is a younger country than England, obviously, and as self-awareness is forming in America - are we a collection of immigrants, are we a load of Italians and Germans and Jews and Brits and Irish, or are we a country with a soul and an identity? - there was a subliminal sense, they knew that the writers would be the ones who would answer those questions.”
“America is abomination of everything free and brave, where persecution is law, intolerance is religion.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.”
“America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.”
“America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.”
“America is addicted to oil and increasing amounts of this oil comes from abroad. Some of the nations we depend on for oil have unstable governments or are hostile towards the United States.”
“America is addicted to oil...We must also change how we power our automobiles. We will increase our research in better batteries for hybrid and electric cars and in pollution-free cars that run on hydrogen. We will also fund additional research in cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips and stalks or switch grass.”
“America is addicted to wars of distraction.”
“America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.”
“America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on a tree. America is the illiterate immigrant who is ashamed that the world of books and intellectual opportunities are closed to him. We are all that nameless foreigner, that homeless refugee, that hungry boy, that illiterate immigrant and that lynched black body. All of us, from the first Adams to the last Filipino, native born or alien, educated or illiterate-We are America!”
Source: America is In the Heart: A Personal History
“America is always a good target for a populist. In many countries, particularly authoritarian systems, if you want to get an extra bonus, you bash the Americans.”
“America is always attracting people, from all over the earth.”
“America is always stronger when we do things together.”
“America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.”
“America is among the countries the advance countries with the least equality of opportunity, which means that the - while I prospects of young American, a more dependent on the income and education's parents (ph) than another - other countries. So this notion of equal opportunity is sort of American dream is, is now a myth.”