America Quote by Mitchell Hurwitz

“We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, and a smattering of suspense and intrigue.”

— Nikita Allgire

Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans, we should…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure--the web--of society needed reform,not demolition. To…

— Richard Louv

“The generations of lives, experiences, and voices of marginalized and silenced Americans offer an array of diverse interpretations of U.S. history that have largely…

— Clarence Lusane

And you know, we were talking about American identity, and where we've come from and where we are and where we're headed. We knew…

— Matt Damon

all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple,…

— Chris Hayes

I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But…

— Jess Walter

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

— Katherine Dunn

The story in America was a vibrant, bottoms-up democracy subverted by corporations and financial speculators. Those people now control much of the narrative. They…

— Kalle Lasn

“...I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave abominably, and with such…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The America that never cared or felt guilty about portraying us as undignified people on their television screen, or in some old history book…

— Leonard Peltier