Apathy Quote by Mark Twain

“Using a wide variety of media, we could demonstrate for our fellow Americans their anxieties, desires, insufficiencies, and frustrations--and how to assuage them all.…

— Joshua Ferris

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with…

— Jose Saramago

“An America that asks what it owes its most vulnerable citizens is improved and humane. An America that looks away is ignoring not just…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Many Americans, we know, are horrified by the posture of their government but seem to be helpless.

— Harold Pinter

Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid…

— James Forten

The task that has fallen to us as Americans is to move the conscience of the world, to keep alive the hope and dream…

— Ronald Reagan

When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state,…

— Tom Stoppard

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

— Howard Zinn

“...witness the surprise of the average American: 'How is it possible that these people display and practise such a disregard for their own lives?'…

— Slavoj Žižek

Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.

— Breyten Breytenbach

America has been a beacon of hope for vulnerable people throughout the world.

— Jim Edgar