America and americans Quote by Walter Kendrick

I love American girls. They're audacious. They put more outrageous things on their bodies than anybody.

— Azzedine Alaia

THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don't know what wine istheir uglinesstheir pink sausage skin, horrible,…

— Max Frisch

The British have been more up for it than the Americans were, particularly with respect to nudity in the show. In Europe there are…

— Kim Cattrall

America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our collective unconscious like an…

— Dennis Miller

And certainly in British culture, as I'm sure it's the same with American culture, we warm to cultures where people can make fun of…

— Omid Djalili

It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activities should…

— Otto Gross

human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired…

— Margaret Mead

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

— Henry Giroux

“Really feeling your body move and the life inside of yourself is critical. Western culture is astoundingly disembodied and uniquely so.”

— Krista Tippett

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

— George Orwell

An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come…

— Rachel Cusk

As more and more people recognize the level of violence involved and the consequences of CTE [chronic traumatic encephelopathy, a degenerative brain disorder], they're…

— Chuck Klosterman