Addresses Quote by Harold Bloom

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or…

— William O. Douglas

“We are presently dealing with the accumulation of a whole society that has worshiped its light side and refused the dark, and this residue…

— Robert A. Johnson

“America is beginning to evolve beyond the worldview that has been predominant for many decades—the rational-individualistic-materialistic paradigm. We are evolving a more integrated view…

— Stephen Dinan

Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the…

— John Ralston Saul

“Can it be that the ultimate chapter of this new era of democratic freedom is going to be deformed by this growing drift toward…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Alexis de Tocqueville warned that as the economy and government of America got bigger, citizens could become smaller: less practiced in the forms of…

— Eric Liu

“Another threat, less overt but no less basic, confronts liberal democracy. More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to…

— Kenny Smith

One must recently have lived on or close to a college campus to have a vivid intimation of what has happened. It is there…

— Anonymous

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

There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first, the distaste…

— Pope Leo XIII

Cynicism, disillusionment, and a dispiriting sense of purposeless has cast a shadow over American society seriously draining it of any language or vision that…

— Henry Giroux