America Quote by Camille Paglia

America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such…

— Norman Mailer

We are threatened by long-unresolved issues between the melting pot of cultures that make up our nation. People are isolated, every day less united,…

— Rick Tumlinson

“The United States is often criticized as interventionist, but in fact America’s traditional propensity has been more isolationist—willing to act forcefully in the world…

— Victor Davis Hanson

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

— John O'Hara

Our civilizations have evolved. The solutions we can find for the things that keep us somewhat primitive and base and ugly in our desires…

— Lisa Joy

Our country is pathologically violent.

— Dee Rees

We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level.

— Spike Lee

For too long, the U.S. has been operating upon the premise that American men and matériel should be capable of reaching and controlling all…

— Ilana Mercer

Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a…

— Steven Erikson

Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual "morning in America" paradise,…

— Ishmael Reed

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually…

— Christopher Dawson