“In America, you are not required to offer food to the hungry or shelter the homeless. There is no ordinance forcing you to visit the lonely, or comfort the infirmed. No where in the Constitution does it say you have to provide clothing to the poor. In fact, one of the nicest things about living here in America, is that you really don't have to do anything for anybody. But when you do, you give meaning and provide soul to the concept of community...and develop a sense of purpose to something greater than one's self.” GivingDoeSoulSelfFactsAmericaPurposeCommunityPoorGreaterComfortOffersConceptsLonelyConstitutionHungryClothingsShelterHomelessOrdinances Author:Pope Paul VI
“America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal. And we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words, within our borders and around the world. We are shaped by every culture. Drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept, E pluribus unum: Out of many, one.” WorldGivingHas BeensEndsSelfStatesEarthAmericaCultureBornSimpleUnitedKnownUnited StatesProgressBloodCenturySourceRevolutionEqualConceptsIdealsAround The WorldBordersEmpiresDedicatedShedStereotypeCrude Author:Barack Obama
“It might be said that religious freedom in the American sense, incorporating the separation of church and state, has been the pivotal concept of the national development of the United States of America.” Has BeensSaidStatesMightAmericaChurchReligiousUnitedUnited StatesAtheismDevelopmentConceptsPositive AtheismSeparationUnited States Of AmericaChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateReligious FreedomPivotalIncorporating Author:Joseph Leon Blau
“I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.” PeopleThinkingStatesWholeAmericaPoliticalHistoryVirtueAtheismHeroConceptsFolksBlowPositive AtheismPresidentialUsaSkepticismDiseasedIrreverence Book:Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader
“I think the spirit of America, one American wanting to make another American's life better, or internationally our desire to see countries do better, or people in countries do better, coming from this concept of volunteerism is a very valid and important part of our internal being.” PeopleThinkingImportantCountryAmericaSpiritDesireConceptsInternalsVolunteerism Author:George H. W. Bush
“What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy.” KnowsAmericaFoundForceMoralityCivilizationCapableConceptsObjectivesPsychologicalPropagandaInterpretationDistortionPsychotherapyPerversionBelated Author:Brock Chisholm
“I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.” WantAmericaIndividualResponsibilityLibertyPrinciplesEconomicCryConceptsWarriorRestraintPersonal ResponsibilityIndividual FreedomRallyingRallying Cry Author:Monica Crowley
“The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.” ChildrenSelfAmericaBornStrangeConceptsMy ChildrenEntitlement Author:Anchee Min
“There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.” IdeasAmericaModernDivineConceptsTheologyWrathModern America Author:R. C. Sproul