Betrayal Quote by Mark Bowden

“The Americans had a wide range of feelings about it, but there is no question about their bravery and patriotism. In the worst days…

— Mark Bowden

“Sometimes, as in the case of the American Revolution, crucial roles turn out to have been played by people who were not leaders but…

— Niall Ferguson

“There were those few, and there will be more, who really liked people, loved people—all people. They were the human torches setting aflame the…

— Saul Alinsky

“America was exhausted. The libertarians had made freedom unbearable, the evangelicals had made faith unbearable, the social justice movement had made equality unbearable, the…

— Scott Alexander

“they seemed to depict an America in which corruption and cruelty lounged on the couch; in which justice was a beggar and kindness a…

— Amor Towles

“We ...recognize the forces which have been trying to falsify American history—the forces which drive away many Americans to a corner of compromise with…

— Carlos Bulosan

“It seemed to me then—and to be honest, sir, seems to me still—that America was engaged only in posturing. As a society, you were…

— Mohsin Hamid

“The truth was, the nation as a body was in the world for one object, and one only: to grovel before king and Church…

— Mark Twain

“And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not…

— Gary Shteyngart

“Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for. Perfection was…

— Joshua Ferris

“...Sometimes one just had to forge on and let the chips fall where they may. After all, we were the ones in the trenches,…

— Delfi Messinger

“But like all outsiders in good faith with the establishment, they tended to forget their revolutionary roots and side with the establishment.”

— Gail Carriger