American Mind Quotes

19 quotes by 13 authors

It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers… — Lorraine Hansberry
In nothing is there more evolution than the American mind. — Walt Whitman
Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community. — George Will
Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions. — Herbert Croly
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible. — Van Wyck Brooks
Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than… — Ben Hecht
The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people. — Ben Hecht
The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual… — Ben Hecht
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to… — Florence King
The individual comes face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind has not come to a realisation of the… — J. Edgar Hoover
The American mind in particular has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone. — Elliot Aronson
The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. — J. Edgar Hoover
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. — Florence King
Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar,… — Hayden Carruth
It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism. — H. L. Mencken
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. — Edith Wharton
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas… — George Will
I loathe the expression â€œWhat makes him tick.â€ It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A… — James Thurber

Who Wrote These American Mind Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 19 American Mind Quotes as follows: