Myth Quote by Irwin Edman Download Open image “The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.” — Irwin Edman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Myth
Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are. The American… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
It's only when an American steps outside of their own culture that you see how integral it is. — Jess Row Copy Share Image
“Our citizens must act as Americans; not as Americans with a prefix and qualifications; not as Irish-Americans, German-Americans, native Americans—but as Americans pure and… — Mary Beth Smith Copy Share Image
“Because Americans lack a common ethnicity or extensive heritage, our founding myth is more important than it is for most other peoples. Unlike other… — Steven K. Green Copy Share Image
“This isolation has left Americans quite unaware of the world beyong their borders. Americans speak few languages, know little about foreign cultures, and remain… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Making sweeping over-generalizations is classically un-American. — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to be damned… — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality. — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically abolished major differences in wealth. — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world. — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure. — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
“Political success in Athens seemed to depend on having a party, and there seemed now to be no party with whom an honorable man… — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one. — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must… — David Brin Copy Share Image
'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I argue that the Jesus of the Gospels is essentially a myth. The Gospels are largely fiction. They were created around the turn of… — Alvar Ellegård Copy Share Image
Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation. — Peter Wilson Copy Share Image
I think the older you get, you start to break down the myth and you get to the dirt of it - and if… — Jena Malone Copy Share Image
Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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