Human values Quote by Jack Kerouac

“Americans had grown soft with all of their rights and personal freedom.”

— Vince Flynn

“It seemed to me then - and to be honest, sir, seems to me still - that America was engaged only in posturing. As…

— Mohsin Hamid

“It wasn’t just the movies. It was everything, everywhere. It was the sublimated sexism that mutated every experience but that we weren’t allowed to…

— Carina Chocano

“Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for.”

— Joshua Ferris

“It seemed to me then—and to be honest, sir, seems to me still—that America was engaged only in posturing. As a society, you were…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Nobody ever went broke overestimating the vulgarity of the American people,”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Once upon a time there was a war...and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and…

— Denis Johnson

“Using a wide variety of media, we could demonstrate for our fellow Americans their anxieties, desires, insufficiencies, and frustrations--and how to assuage them all.…

— Joshua Ferris

“She had noticed that there was a tendency on the part of some Americans to believe that everybody, deep inside, wanted to live in…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Well, we're just All-American queers.”

— Rita Mae Brown

“it is difficult to understand that not everyone in the world wants to be an American.”

— Bruce Cumings

“you know when i was a little kid in oregon i didn't feel that i was and american at all, with all that suburban…

— Jack Kerouac