American Quote by Gad Saad

America has long raised political and cultural cognitive dissonance to an art form. We are capable of living with enormous inequality and injustice while…

— Jon Meacham

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

— Chogyam Trungpa

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism…

— George J. Mitchell

“The cultural situation in America today (and indeed in all Western societies) is determined by the cultural earthquake of the nineteen-sixties, the consequences of…

— Peter L. Berger

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The…

— James Burnham

“We criticize Americans for not being able either to analyse or conceptualize. But this is a wrong-headed critique. It is we who imagine that…

— Jean Baudrillard

“Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments…

— John Brockman

“Even the great thinkers of the Enlightenment, with their commitment to reason, failed to recognize the ways they stereotyped others.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“The shallow social and political alternatives bequeathed to contemporary western society by the Enlightenment and its aftermath, in which every issue stands either to…

— N.T. Wright

In a world where so much seems to be hidden by the smoke of falsity and moral degeneration, we Americans must grasp firmly the…

— Manton S. Eddy

It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality…

— Pauline Kael