T Quotes
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“The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments.”
“The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.”
“The American success formula is first to get a home of your own, then to get a car of your own so you don't have to stay in that home of your own.”
“The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people.”
Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections
“The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of failure and poverty, traps millions of people in positions where any kind of success seems impossible to contemplate, and in which failure itself is a kind of passive rebellion against their own misery and the social system which created it in the first place. To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.”
“The American system is, in many ways, more difficult, certainly far more expensive and much longer than a parliamentary system, and I really admire the people who subject themselves to it. Even when I, you know, think they should not be elected president, I still think, well, you know, good for you I guess, you're out there promoting democracy and those crazy ideas of yours.”
“The American system itself is incapable. It is as incapable of producing freedom for the Afro-American as the system of a chicken is of producing a duck egg.”
“The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.”
“The American taxing structure, the purpose of which was to serve the people, began instead to serve the insatiable appetite of government. If you will forgive me, you know someone has once likened government to a baby. It is an alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981
“The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.”
“The American taxpayers should not have to send one more penny on the Administration's Iraq misadventure. Let's give our troops the supplies they need to get out of Iraq safely. Let's bring our troops home.”
“The American teacher stands on the front lines of poverty and inequity that our fellow Americans refuse to acknowledge, on the front lines of the real social condition of our nation–not the advertised one–and we stand together. When we look over our shoulders, there’s no one there backing us up. The rest of the army is off pretending there is no fight to be had here, no excuses to be made, no hardships to decry, no supply lines to worry about, that things in American society are just hunky-dory outside of the fact that the teachers just don’t care enough”
“The American tradition of foreign policy exceptionalism, our grand strategy as a nation, reaches back much further. Really at the turn - the end of the 19th century, when we achieved power a generation after the Civil War, the outlines of an American vision came into focus, and what we - it was based on two things. One, our realization that our values and our interests were the same, and that our business interests would advance as our values advanced in the world.”
“The American Type Culture Collection—a nonprofit whose funds go mainly toward maintaining and providing pure cultures for science—has been selling HeLa since the sixties. When this book went to press, their price per vial was $256. The ATCC won’t reveal how much money it brings in from HeLa sales each year, but since HeLa is one of the most popular cell lines in the world, that number is surely significant.”
Source: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
“The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering.”
“The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.”
“The American version of 'The Office' is fantastic.”
“The American vice is explanation.”
Source: Pink triangle and yellow star, and other essays (1976-1982)
“The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!”
“The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.”
Source: Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1761-1792
“The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection.”
“The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.”
“The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.”
“The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?”
“The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.”
Source: Superpatriotism
“The American Way of Life! Eat too much, work too much, buy too much, read too little, think even less, and die in poverty and insecurity. No, thank you. Don't you see that's how Americans take over the world? Not just through their army and their CIA and their World Bank., but through this infectious disease called the American Dream?”
Source: The Committed
“The American way of life is based on competition - competing with rivals, competing with anyone around and competing with oneself. Life today must be better than yesterday, and tomorrow must be better than today. It is a life which always looks ahead, sometimes without destination or aim.”
Source: The Politician and Other Stories
“The American way of life is not negotiable.”
“The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.”
“The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.”
“THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don't know what wine istheir uglinesstheir pink sausage skin, horrible, they only live because there is penicillin,... the world as an Americanized vacuumtheir fake health, their fake youthfulnessthe way they use cosmetics even on corpses, their whole pornographic attitude to death.”
“The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol.”
“The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash.”
“The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual.”
“The American West is the playground for the country's obsession with exploitation and destruction, with most extractive economies near Native American reservations. There are increased rates of birth defects, higher rates of cancer. Violent people who mimc the violence done to the land.”
Source: Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
“The American West serves as a prototype for examining urban/hinterland relations under capitalism in still another way. Because the most powerful elements in capitalist social relations derive their authority from the ability to control allocative resources, it follows that the most significant places of capital accumulation would be the locus for decisions affecting the tiniest of hinterland outposts. In Appalachia, John Gaventa found that the forces "which propelled the development of a capital-intensive, resource extractive" economy "lay not in Appalachia but in the economic and energy demands of the British and American metropolis." ... Urban areas thus grew in accord with the degree and volume of capital invested in the adjacent countryside.”
Source: Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West
“The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.”
“The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.”
“The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.”
Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women
“The American woman is a monstrosity.”
“The American woman is more stylish than any other in the world. She understands the power of good style and has the confidence to feel comfortable.”
“The American woman's concept of marriage is a clearly etched picture of something uninflated on the floor. A sleeping-bag withoutair, a beanbag without beans, a padded bra without pads. To work on it, you start pumping--what the magazines call "breathing life into your marriage." Do enough of this and the marriage becomes a kind of Banquo's ghost, a quasi-living entity.”
“The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.”
Source: America Day by Day
“The American woods have been unnerving people for 300 years. The inestimably priggish and tiresome Henry David Thoreau thought nature was splendid, splendid indeed, so long as he could stroll to town for cakes and barley wine, but when he experienced real wilderness, on a vist to Katahdin in 1846, he was unnerved to the cored. This wasn't the tame world of overgrown orchards and sun-dappled paths that passed for wilderness in suburban Concord, Massachusetts, but a forbiggind, oppressive, primeval country that was "grim and wild . . .savage and dreary," fit only for "men nearer of kin to the rocks and wild animals than we." The experience left him, in the words of one biographer, "near hysterical.”
Source: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
“The American work environment has to change, not the women. We should be recognizing that what women are not fitting into is a very narrow, male-dominated workplace of the 1950s.”
“The American work ethic is something to be admired. Our workforce, regardless of position, works hard to produce the best product and serve customers to the best of their ability.”
“The American worker is more productive than he's ever been.”
“The American worker is more productive than he's ever been. We've got more people to do it. We've got all the ingredients for a sensational future. It's just that right now the athlete's on the floor. This is a super athlete.”
“The American writer is a very pampered figure - by foundations, by fellowships, by publishing advances. Even though I am not American, I have been pampered enough myself to know how it can make your life too frictionless.”
“The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.”