America Quote by Johan Huizinga

As long as American liberals are going to keep announcing that they're embarrassed for their country, how about being embarrassed by our public schools…

— Ann Coulter

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad…

— H. L. Mencken

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can…

— Charles Baudelaire

The worst of us is not without innocence,although buried deeply it might be.

— Walt Disney

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

— A. E. Housman

“...loading your brain with subliminal messages.... How loathsome to turn a sadistic murder into entertainment [in the newspaper] -- and yet how hard not…

— Mary Gaitskill

People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity…

— Kenneth Williams

“It is perfectly understandable, in a world where the media shout in the same vulgar way about genocides and sexual scandals, to think that…

— Prunier, Gérard

I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

It's just easier to make fun and cut down. It's kind of a way of life in America. If you can make people want…

— David Spade

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the front-page news is a comedian doing a joke that people think is naughty, that proves there's no real news that day, does…

— Russell Howard