American exceptionalism Quote by Lisa Ling Download Open image “We have had a long held myth of American exceptionalism.” — Lisa Ling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare American exceptionalism Exceptionalism Long Myth Storytelling
American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative. — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
American exceptionalism, in the broad sense, is not a bunch of braggadocious words people say, "Yeah, we're better people. We have a better country.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“America had, I believe, a divine founding. Call it American exceptionalism if you like. But that makes America all the more vulnerable to God's… — Fleming Rutledge Copy Share Image
Gone is any mention of American exceptionalism. I happen to believe that twice, three times in the 20th century, the United States saved Western… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Even a cursory run through American history shows exceptionalism has been used to justify bloodshed, oppression, and profit. — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Most Americans are exceptionalists; we think we live outside of history. — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive. — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
Christian nation mythologists pump themselves up with narratives of American exceptionalism and Christian domination. But sooner or later even their most devoted followers should… — Sarah Posner Copy Share Image
American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men. — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's… — Gerald Celente Copy Share Image
I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me. — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than to act better than traditional empires - committed… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
When did an old white guy yelling at me, telling me what to think become news? What gives him the right to tell me… — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
I have a zillion bottles of hot sauce. I love Trader Joe's jalapeno. The whole right side of my fridge is filled with hot… — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
Such a small percentage of our population carry the burden of knowing what's really going on in our country's name, and I think that… — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
My first job in TV was hosting this young teen magazine show, and all these high school teenagers showed up from all over Sacramento,… — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
I never run hills. My quads are already big enough. I don't run to build muscle; I do it for cardio. — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
I had a planned C-section, and I cried the entire day before I had the baby. — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
We live in a culture where we're bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity. — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
I don't remember my first trip, but I do remember when my mom took me to Disney World in Orlando. It wasn't the rides… — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
I think that an attack of America, an attack on American exceptionalism by the media, which is real, has certainly undercut a lot of… — Clay Travis Copy Share Image
Young people in college - many living away from their parents for the first time in their lives - are particularly vulnerable to the… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
The human condition for the vast majority of people on this planet for the entire time of what humanity has been here has been… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Yes, my friends, your hunger for history is still pretty segregated. Your knowledge of America often ends at the color line. You end up erasing the black story as the American story, black history as American history. You certainly have an insatiable thirst for history, but only if that history justifies whiteness. Most black folk can’t help but notice what… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share
American patriotism is now jingoism. American Greatness is made fun of. The concept of "Make America Great Again" or American exceptionalism is lampooned. It is impugned. It is attacked. The effort to globalize our society and make us feel, as many of us as possible, that there's nothing special about being an American, that we ought to think of ourselves… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share
“Patton was ecstatic, writing home to Beatrice that “I know I am needed!” and “The Lord had a perfect cut for me and pulled… — Christopher S.M. Lyon Copy Share Image
That [American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
American exceptionalism, in the broad sense, is not a bunch of braggadocious words people say, "Yeah, we're better people. We have a better country.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The position of the Americans is quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“But the biggest problem with being fed lies about how great we are is that people won't be prepared for how evil this government… — Aron Ra Copy Share Image
Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new thing in history, different from other countries. Other nations had evolved one way or another, evolved from tribes from a gathering of clans, from inevitabilities of language and tradition and geography. But America was born,… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share