Citizens Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge

There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.

— David Henry Hwang

“The right to pursue happiness sends me and other Americans, even here where we are meant to resist outside temptation, on a hunt for…

— Lynne Tillman

Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to…

— Frank Crowninshield

All around the country, individuals are choosing to redefine their lives and the pursuit of happiness in ways much closer to the original notion…

— Arianna Huffington

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But…

— Viktor E. Frankl

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“A U.S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and…

— David Foster Wallace

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

— Harriet Martineau

“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' I realized then where the problem lay. My students, and so many of our young people today,…

— Rafe Esquith

“When our founders spoke of the “pursuit of happiness,” they did not mean long vacations or the piling up of things. Happiness was in…

— David McCullough