Alike Quote by Martin Jacques

“This is also why Anglo-American achievements cannot be seen in isolation from their ambiguous consequences and victims elsewhere; why many Anglo-American assumptions, derived from…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the Model T Ford on the American nation. Two generations…

— John Steinbeck

Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

We Americans have always felt a special kinship with the future.

— Mitt Romney

I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways,…

— Ayad Akhtar

Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead…

— Jürgen Moltmann

The different American experience of the 20th Century is crucial because the lesson of the century for Europe, which essentially is that the human…

— Tony Judt

America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a…

— Susan Cain

“America had shifted from what the influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality—and opened up a…

— Susan Cain

Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us…

— Ruth Benedict

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a…

— Daniel Yankelovich

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

— Graydon Carter