Americans Quote by Saul Bellow Download Open image ““A good American makes propaganda for whatever existence has forced him to become.”” — Saul Bellow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Americans Characterization Life
“It is true that all authors have tried to make propaganda. The great ones are those who failed, who have gained access, consciously or… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
“The typical American, after he has lost the foundations of his existence, works for new foundations.” — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“But that’s the trouble with propaganda. It constantly contradicts itself.” — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
“If you want to understand propaganda you have to open your eyes to what you don`t want to see .” — Gerald Lanteigne Copy Share Image
“Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for.” — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the rich and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“He was not what he made up his mind to be. A man was the sum of his limits: freedom only made him see… — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
“how bizarre propaganda actually is, but how normal it seems to those who yield to it.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great… — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“When causes are vague and goals uncertain... it becomes necessary to fall back on the bloated and honeyed words of propaganda.” — Peter Englund Copy Share Image
“Propaganda is where a demagogue plays pedagogue and starts a monologue to leave their audience agog.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“On Broadway it was still bright afternoon and the gassy air was almost motionless under the leaden spokes of sunlight, and sawdust footprints lay… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“But now the emphasis has shifted to making it. People have surrendered their personal moral objectives to government or schools or psychologists. It’s a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Medical studies have shown that cursing reduces levels of stress and pain. Repressing your anger is not healthy. It's much better to verbalize it,… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“ Breakfast was ready. He could hear his father asking for coffee. Why did his father have to yell all the time? Couldn't he talk… — John Fante Copy Share Image
“What constitutes an American? Not color nor race nor religion. Not the pedigree of his family nor the place of his birth. Not the… — Harold Ickes Copy Share Image
“Anything that's strange is no good to the average American. If it doesn't have Chicago plumbing, it's nonsense.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“When good Americans die, they go to Paris,' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette.” — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
“Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I wonder when someone will grow the testicles to say to americans everywhere, 'Enough with the self-medicating.' Seriously. What ever happened to dealing with… — Anthony Beal Copy Share Image
We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Taking away coffee from Americans is like taking away oil from the motors.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Americans will put up with anything, provided that It doesn't block traffic — Toni Watson Copy Share Image
“The Europeans hate us because we’ve retired to live inside our advertisements, like hermits going into caves to contemplate. We sleep in symbolic bedrooms,… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Although dieting is a long standing American pastime, as a method of losing weight it stinks.” — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
