American greatness Quote by Jon Mooallem

“I'm not arguing that America would be a better or more beautiful place if it had imported hippopotamuses in 1910. But there is something…

— Jon Mooallem

“In the early twentieth century, the Congress of our great nation debated a glorious plan to resolve a meat shortage in America. The idea…

— Sarah Gailey

“I did not see anything [New York 1886] to help my people. I could see that the Wasichus [white man] did not care for…

— Black Elk

“Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.”

— Richard Manning

“When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch, the market of the world and the modern powers of…

— Karl Marx

“Tell me about it. Despite all the changes in the twenty-first century, it seems that the rich are still rich and the poor are…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“a call for revolution wrapped in the clothing of rationality.”

— Veronica Roth

“To augment their misery, a contagious disorder of a dangerous nature spread through the land; and, rendered more virulent by the uncleanness, the indifferent…

— Walter Scott

“That we are utopians is well known. So utopian are we that we go the length of believing that the revolution can and ought…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“The majestic architecture, the cultivated manners, the simplicity of life, the disregard for one's fellow man, the plagues, the rampant corruption, the unmitigated racism,…

— Chris Elliott

The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was…

— Richard Hofstadter

“At this time, the cusp of the modern age, the hinge of the nineteenth century, had a plebiscite been taken amongst all the inhabitants…

— Angela Carter