American society Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa

America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.

— Ernest Gellner

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.

— Robert M. T. Hunter

Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate…

— David Brin

The Great Society wanted to make America look like a country in which Little Rock could never have happened. It failed because it was…

— Shelby Steele

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

— Jack Kemp

All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community,…

— Peter Drucker

To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among Negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the Negro politician…

— Marcus Garvey

There's a distinct American culture that evolved from the United States founding, and that is what made America great, is what allowed the human…

— Rush Limbaugh

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

— Robert Bork

It's not a traditional America anymore.

— Bill O'Reilly

There is no such thing as society.

— Margaret Thatcher

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to…

— Eric Hoffer