Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort…

What frustrates me is to see African-Americans behave as though what European-Americans say is worthwhile. It simply isn't. It's just some silly people who…

— Jamaica Kincaid

If you [Americans] behave with disrespect - even just a little bit - [the Iranian people] will punch you in the mouth so hard…

— Mohammed Emami-Kashani

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

— Howard Rheingold

Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.

— George Will

Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens…

— Edward V. Long

The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert... I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn't flow,…

— Eustace Conway

Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.

— Nina Easton

I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists…

— Frank Zappa

In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Information leads to transformation. If you are not inspired by being informed, you will expire by becoming deformed!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

— Sarah Bernhardt

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

— Clarence Darrow

What’s with her?” says the painter. “She’s mad because she’s a woman,” Jon says. This is something I haven’t heard for years, not since…

— Margaret Atwood

By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity,…

— Margaret Sanger

Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited…

— Maria Montessori