America Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Treating people badly in reaction to how they treat us plays into the ugliness in the world and perpetuates it.”

— Kim Holden

“America is rich and fat and very, very noticeable in this world. It is a forlorn hope that we should be left alone.”

— T. R. Fehrenbach

Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.

— Matthew Kelly

“An appearance of togetherness is more important than the truth. Superficiality reigns supreme.”

— Justin Donner

“In these our cowardly times, we deny the grandeur of the Universal, and assert and glorify our local Bigotries, and so we cannot agree…

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Joshua Ferris

“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

“Americans were no more shallow than any other people, just more pampered, so they had come to treasure their shallowness, making pop singers and…

— Robert Boswell

“The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming; the scraps of beauty make it worse.”

— Issac Marion

“This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands of European peasants and poor…

— Mary McCarthy

“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

“Civilization is a thin veil over our savage selves, easily lifted by some for personal glorification.”

— Lilo Abernathy