America Quote by Cornel West

“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

American liberty is being destroyed by Marxist doctrines that explain society in terms of hegemonic and oppressed groups - whether classes, races or genders…

— Paul Craig Roberts

“Now it is fashionable to be democratic, to pretend that no virtue or wisdom can exist outside corduroy, and to abuse the middle classes.…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“AMERICANISM, n. 1) The desire to purge America of all those qualities which make it a more or less tolerable place in which to…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Socialism, Puritanism, Philistinism, Christianity— he saw them all as allotropic forms of democracy, as variations upon the endless struggle of quantity against quality, of…

— H.L. Mencken

“I think we can survive—and resist both US authoritarianism and corporatism while creating a democratic revolution—only if the majority of Americans either become the…

— Charles Derber

However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract…

— Simon Mainwaring

“Although we had been warned by some of the greatest political thinkers of the nineteenth century, by Tocqueville and Lord Acton, that socialism means…

— Friedrich Hayek

“Given the pervasiveness of capitalism’s domination, the revolutionary vanguard can come only from those outcast intellectuals—especially among the younger students[282]—those who are able to…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

On my visits to America, I discovered that the old Marxist dictum, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,"…

— Felix Houphouet-Boigny

“America needs a pure democracy; absolutely free of both communism and capitalism”

— Leland Lewis

“The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the romance out of revolutionary violence and cast doubt on…

— Steven Pinker