American Quote by Camille Paglia

“Writing during the heyday of Modernization Theory, the French critic Raymond Aron, though resolutely anti-communist, termed American-style individualism the product of a short history…

— Pankaj Mishra

America is the big subject of the second half of the 20th century, tackled in one form or another by all the great American…

— Justin Cartwright

My concern is to develop a North American type of anarchism that comes out of the American tradition, or that at least can be…

— Murray Bookchin

“For at the beginning of the twentieth century, the nation had been struggling to find its way. Terror had raged, a second civil war…

— Howard Blum

“What these men represented was not 'The West' but what was for this century a relatively new kind of monied class in America, a…

— Joan Didion

When you think about fascism and right-wing governments, oftentimes people think about European history, but it's been flaring up on and off all throughout…

— Torrey Peters

“writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an "urban Thoreau") set forth to redefine and rediscover ways to live in America without slogging through…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“More than a century before Mills and Nisbet, Alexis de Tocqueville had remarked upon the uneasiness of the citizens of the young republic, who…

— Charles J. Sykes

“Perhaps no two events ever united so intimately and forceably to combat and expel prejudice, as the Revolution of America, and the Alliance with…

— Thomas Paine

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

— Mark Twain

“Three days after a German submarine sank the Lusitania, Wilson addressed an audience of recently naturalized citizens in Philadelphia. "You cannot become thorough Americans",…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr

I think [John Adams] developed a much deeper suspicion of France and the other European powers than he had earlier. He lost much if…

— Gordon S. Wood