American Quotes - page 19

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism. (Ben Nicholson)
Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks - those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization. View quote
Margaret Sanger
The system is wrong. I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of 'U. S. soldier' is just the lie of fools. View quote
Bowe Bergdahl
I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam. View quote
Sun Myung Moon
The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians are squarely in the great classical liberal tradition that built the United States and bestowed on us the American heritage of individual liberty, a peaceful foreign policy, minimal government, and a free-market economy. View quote
Murray Rothbard
For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that. View quote
Fred Thompson
When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical. View quote
Ralph Ellison
We still retain in Britain a deeper sense of class, a more obvious social stratification, and stronger class resentments, than any of the Scandinavian, Australasian, or North American countries. View quote
Anthony Crosland
You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that. View quote
Frank Hague
She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist. (Don DeLillo)
I want to immerse myself in American magic and dread. View quote
Don DeLillo
Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush. View quote
Bill Bryson
When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life. View quote
Martin Amis
Part of America's industrial problems is the aim of its corporate managers. Most American executives think they are in the business to make money, rather than products or service...The Japanese corporate credo, on the other hand, is that a company should become the world's most efficient provider of whatever product and service it offers. Once it becomes the world leader and continues to offer good products, profits follow. View quote
W. Edwards Deming
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. View quote
W. Edwards Deming
It was Reagan who began the realignment of American politics, making the Republicans into internationalist Jeffersonians with his speech in London at the Palace of Westminster in 1982, which led to the creation of the National Endowment for Democracy and the emergence of democracy promotion as a central goal of United States foreign policy. View quote
Michael Ignatieff
I am not a Virginian, but an American. View quote
Patrick Henry
It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system. View quote
Bob Woodward
For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end,...Such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own. View quote
C. Wright Mills
If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots. And I should not be surprised, although I don't know, if there were some such idiots even in Germany. (C. Wright Mills)
Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all big American cities, but which reaches its ultimate in New York. View quote
Fritz Leiber
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. View quote
David Foster Wallace
It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia. View quote
Peter Carey
Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal or a conservative value. It's an American value that I would think that we pretty much all agree on. View quote
Jerry Falwell