American culture Quote by Henry Giroux

...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we…

— Ellen Glasgow

“Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual,…

— Aldous Huxley

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

— Lupita Nyong'o

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

— Katherine Dunn

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

— Anonymous

“Culture in the broadest sense includes all the labor which human power expends on nature.”

— Herman Bavinck

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly…

— Joan Didion

“Our advertising and even our arts convey the idea that we [Americans] as a society are brash, irreverent, and free of all constraint, when…

— Garret Keizer

We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on…

— Henry Rollins

Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.

— Zadie Smith

Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is…

— Vernon Howard

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

— Anonymous