America Quote by Ken Follett

When I made Spartacus during the McCarthy Era, we were losing our freedom. It was an awful, awful way. McCarthy saw Communists everywhere, in…

— Kirk Douglas

“Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments…

— John Brockman

“Hatred of popular culture was to define a generation of American intellectuals and their claim to a superior sensibility.”

— Anonymous

“You American intellectuals—you want so desperately to feel besieged and persecuted!”

— Günter Grass

“The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the real enemy is War rather than imperial Germany. There is…

— Randolph Bourne

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful…

— Warren Farrell

Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt.…

— William Gibson

We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned…

— Lionel Shriver

“somehow Acheson had been scarred during the McCarthy era; it was not so much that he had done anything wrong as the fact that…

— David Halberstam

“Like the victims of the historical Inquisition and its other modern equivalents, the men and women who were targeted during the McCarthy era were…

— Jonathan Kirsch

The portrayal of Senator Joe McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren't cowering in fear during the…

— Ann Coulter

“There are significant analogues between the American fear of Communism during the McCarthy era and the American fear of Islam at the beginning of…

— Ben Daniel