A Quotes
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“American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other.”
“American democracy faces a massive challenge. I don't think it is a certainty that we're headed toward Putin's Russia, as some commentariat does. But people need to mobilize and build up small-d democratic institutions to prepare against that eventuality.”
“American democracy has been hacked.”
Source: An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power: Your Action Handbook to Learn the Science, Find Your Voice, and Help Solve the Climate Crisis
“American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is one of the rules of the game, without which the game could not continue. I doubt anyone, no matter how sharp and sharp-tongued, could succeed in getting across to high school students how vital an acute mind is for just keeping a grip on one's life and earnings in our mendacious politics and economics. No wonder our school system is devoutly dedicated to demoralizing and blunting such minds.”
“American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.”
Source: Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen
“American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.”
“American democracy is really under attack here [Clinton campaign that was hacked]. And the question is how are we and in particular and how are Democrats going to respond to this. We have to understand this is really, really quite extraordinary. And it would seem to me that the FBI shouldn't be getting rolled by the House Republicans and that's what happened here.”
“American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.”
“American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world, and it no longer is. Citizens cannot be guaranteed that they can walk into a voting booth with any assurance that their vote will be counted.”
“American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world.”
“American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.”
“American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.”
“American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.”
“American diversity rarely applies to money and success.”
“American dream,
a spouse,
a brace of children,
cuddly pets,
coffee-table books,
rusted skeleton keys,
plastic cauliflower bags,
business cards of business-card printers,
a mound of used airmail envelopes.
Old house on moving day,
all echoes and loneliness.”
Source: Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008
“American Dream Is Under Assault. People that haven't been able to find a job in months and this growing sense in this country that this is the new normal, well we can't accept that.”
“American dream: when he first heard the phrase as a kid he pictured God lying sleeping, the quilt-colored map of the U.S. coming out of his head like a cloud.”
Source: Rabbit Redux
“American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.”
“American Eagle can be a selling point for other young, cutting-edge companies to come to Pittsburgh”
“American Eagle clothing is stylish, flattering and all about embracing your individuality.”
“American economy is tricky. If you stay in the game you're in a good position for the upswing. If you're not in the game you can't win.”
“American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?”
Source: The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
“American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.”
“American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.”
“American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.”
“American election was really personal for Putin because he believed that Clinton is a personal enemy. He genuinely believed she was behind the Moscow protests in 2012, 2011.”
“American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need them most urgently and which, if they are neglected, will breed the greatest threats to its security. It is an empire, in short, that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial.”
Source: Empire: the rise and demise of the British world order and the lessons for global power
“American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism”
“American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.”
“American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.”
“American eroticism has always been of a different provenance and complexion than the European variety, an enjoyment both furtive and bland that is closer to a blushing cartoon than a sensual celebration.”
Source: From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition
“American evangelical leaders have succumbed to a watered-down salvation of entitlement, prosperity, conservative judges, and anti-abortion laws. They reap the seeds they’ve sown in an inept, blasphemous leader who divides and weakens his nation. Stripped of world dominance, power, and respect, Catholic leaders waddle in the shame of their pedophile-plagued clergy, inviting pagan religions into the house of God. Each has cut a Faustian deal with the devil, which presents Andre with an opportunity: a path to redemption”
Source: Swarm
“American exceptionalism embraces a work-centered soteriology, believing that the United States of American has earned a special status before God, attaining favor through her exceptional actions. This assumption stands in stark contrast to the humility and dependence on God revealed in the book of Lamentations.”
Source: Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
“American Exceptionalism is a false religion.”
Source: The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Russia
“American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative.”
“American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view.”
“American exceptionalism, in the broad sense, is not a bunch of braggadocious words people say, "Yeah, we're better people. We have a better country. We are higher class people." That's not what it is. America was the exception to the way human beings prior to America, most of which lived.”
“American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's minds wasted? Exceptional at what? Eating more junk food and becoming the most obese nation on Earth?”
“American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.”
“American families be warned, if the White House doesn't send your jobs overseas, they'll send your kids.”
“American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.”
“American families only spend 17 minutes a day on average having time together.”
“American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.”
“American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of one of their parents.... Not until the sixties did the chief cause of separation of parents shift from death to divorce.”
Source: Childhood's Future
“American fans want to meet you, and they wait for that autograph by the stage door. In the UK, it doesn't really happen that much.”
“American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others: Since 1980, the price of sweeteners and added fats (most of them derived, respectively, from subsidized corn and subsidized soybeans), dropped 20 percent, while the price of fresh fruits and vegetables increased by 40 percent.”
Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.”
“American Fascism is disguised as MAGA Christianity.”
Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America
“American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan.”
“American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.”