Quotes of: American-life Keyword

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Spiro T. Agnew

I think a fight with David Haye, even if he is not American, is going to give positive vibes about the heavyweight division for the American fans and fans worldwide.

Wladimir Klitschko

For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.

Rick Mears

...am so deeply impressed with the fair mindedness and tolerance of the American people...

Virchand Gandhi

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

William J. Clinton

I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.

Anita Hill

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

Christopher Hampton

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.

Peter Brimelow

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.

Paul Robeson

I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance ... everything about the b...

Hitler's Secret Conversations, 1941-1944

In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the civil rights movement has been delusion.

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution was conceived and adopted. The meanings of concepts and words change with use, and even the Supreme Court...

The Legal Universe: Observations on the Foundations of American Law

Old Satan couldn't get along without plenty of help.

African-American

Better a devil you know than a hundred strangers.

South American

The daughter-in-law wipes away what the mother-in-law has seen.

South American

My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster's or the...

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

Fuck you," said Czernobog. "Fuck you and fuck your mother and fuck the fucking horse you fucking rode in on. You will not even die in battle. No warrior will taste your blood. No one alive will take your life. You will die a soft, poor death. You wil...

American Gods

The shape does not change. There was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. you may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are lik...

American Gods

Straight people don't have to come out, as heterosexuality is assumed. [...] Young straight people are less likely to question the choices that their families and societies are attempting to make for them. [...]A lot of straight people move through l...

American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics

The law is too important to be left to the lawyers, to paraphrase Georges Clemenceau about war and generals. We laymen know too little about our Constitution and think too superficially about its influence on the qualities of American life. Civic dut...

Rights of the People, The: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties

It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with ...

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