Quotes about Americans

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The Americans of the United States do not let their dogs hunt the Indians as do the Spaniards in Mexico, but at bottom i — Alexis de Tocqueville
For the mentally disturbed, Marie knew these sandwich visits might be the only dependable moments in their lives. She al — Sherman Alexie, Indian Killer
Fate. Now that's a loaded word. Like "yoga" or "karma", it's one of those words that slipped out of its native culture a — Debra Ollivier, What French Women Know About Love, Sex and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind
Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples - while judging ourselves by our best intentions. And this has — George W. Bush
I know that no matter how liberal or progressive I profess to be, no matter how successfully, how diligently I seek to b — Michael Winship
Thank God for immigrants. They're the only ones who have any personality left. They still allow themselves emotions, jud — Colin Quinn, The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America
Richard Wright and his Negro intellectual colleagues never realized the plain truth that no one in the United States und — Harold Cruse
The American Club was for those who preferred to have dinner at six and brunch on a Sunday and avoid the stress of deali — John Mole, It's All Greek to Me!: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina--and Real Greeks
They never said “I don’t know.” They said, instead, “I’m not sure,” which did not give any information but still suggest — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
I was having dinner…in London…when eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about “Your country’s neve — P.J. O'Rourke, Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About This"
Every American wants MORE MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons — Allen Ginsberg
Holocaust survivors and their descendants are supposed to hate those who oppressed and killed them and their people. Bla — Darnell Lamont Walker
They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along & spoil it. — Thelonious Monk
Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetr — Dmitri Mendeleev
It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States...capable of maintaining the rule of democracy.... — Naomi Wolf, Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries
Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental practices of na — Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeate — Mordecai Richler
I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may — Gore Vidal, Death Before Bedtime
Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a coun — Zbigniew Brzeziński
Programmed in self-hatred, many of us shadow-box the light of day away and chase everything meaningless the night throug — D. Allen Miller, Scarlet Tears