Acceptance Quote by Henry James

“It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted…

— Henry James

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

I think that America is a part of the world, that we want to cooperate with the world. We are not the dominant power…

— Brent Scowcroft

Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't.

— Jonah Goldberg

Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection, the self-acceptance…

— Sherwood Anderson

America is, in many ways, as much an idea as it is a country. And Americans have long marketed that idea around the world…

— Joy Reid

America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

— Walter Dean Myers

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat…

— Jerry Brown

In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction…

— Edwidge Danticat

I really think that most people around the world know how well-intended Americans are.

— Anonymous