America Quote by Rollo May

A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes,…

— Aldous Huxley

“For me, the step from impotence to the power of the weak is more important than another transition that many of us attempt again…

— Dorothee Soelle

For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We…

— Bruce Schneier

“There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to…

— Christopher Hitchens

“In fact, we are often more interesting and sympathetic as human beings when something has gone wrong than when we are convinced of our…

— Barbara Moses

A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the world, and…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light.”

— Victor Hugo

As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or…

— Anonymous

A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at least to…

— Walter Benjamin

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight…

— Carl Sandburg

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy;…

— Carl Sagan