quotes about Americanism

last updated: November 28, 2023

McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled,
-- Joseph McCarthy

Source : Speech in Wisconsin, 1952, in Richard Rovere Senator Joe McCarthy (1973) p. 8

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“Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.”
“When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child.”
“As human beings we have unlimited potential and imagination. The worst thing you can do is be a conformist and buy into conformity. It's the worst possible thing. It's better to be outrageous. It's better to hang out with the sages, the people open to possibilities, even the psychotics. You never know where you'll find the geniuses of our society.”
“A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief.”
“I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It's just full of all these open wounds we don't really know what to do with.”
“A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night”
“It's the oldest story in the world. Boy loves girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back thanks to the unethical behavior of megalomaniacal mad scientists who never met a corpse they wouldn't try to resurrect. Anyone coming within a hundred yards of my happy ending had better pray that they're immune to bullets. - Shaun Mason”
“How many girls, models or not, are secure about their bodies? I think I'm more realistic about what to expect of myself now. I also have a lot of other things than modeling going on in my life that I'm proud of.”
“It seems that simply being willing to express our views clearly, persuasively and without malice, can be a powerful invitation to others who may be lurking out there, in agreement with us but unsure whether their position is speakable or practical.”
“Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.”