American Mind Quotes
19 quotes by 13 authors
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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
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In nothing is there more evolution than the American mind.
— Walt Whitman
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Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
— George Will
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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
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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
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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
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The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.
— Ben Hecht
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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
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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
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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
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The American mind in particular has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone.
— Elliot Aronson
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The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.
— J. Edgar Hoover
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
— Florence King
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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
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It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.
— H. L. Mencken
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
— Edith Wharton
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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
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I loathe the expression “What makes him tick.†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: