“Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance to get rid of this dogma, I have to tell you Americans that you've been pushing your American way of life for decades. You thought it was perfection itself, the ultimate achievement of human thought... There has to be a different approach... Americans have to be more modest in their desires. We have to stimulate human qualities in people rather than greed.”
![“When you look back at the fight against Communism, one thing that is striking is the degree to which we [the United States] were carried on by our own values. One of the real challenges of the new era is going to be to maintain those values and not adopt those of our adversaries.” quote by David E. Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e1e/david-e-hoffman-43835_adversaries_when-you-look-back-at-the-fight-against_757896.jpg)
![“We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get beyond polarized politics.” quote by Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/655/cornel-west-708_greed_we-americans-have-to-get-beyond-the-gree_384791.jpg)
