American Society Quotes - Page 3

• How young people are represented betrays a great deal about what is increasingly new about the economic, social, cultural and political constitution of American society and its growing disinvestment in young people, the social state and democracy itself.

  Henry Giroux

  People, Political, Democracy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The prevailing move in American society to a permanent war status does more than promote a set of unifying symbols that embrace a survival of the fittest ethic, promoting conformity over dissent, the strong over the weak, and fear over responsibility, it also gives rise to what David Graeber has called a "language of command" in which violence becomes the most important element of power and mediating force in shaping social relationships.

  Henry Giroux

  Strong, War, Moving

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism that creates the foundation for sapping democracy of any political substance and moral vitality. The predominance of the disimagination machine in American society, along with its machinery of social death and historical amnesia, seeps into in all aspects of life, suggesting that young people and others marginalized by class, race and ethnicity have been abandoned.

  Henry Giroux

  Race, Ethnicity, Class

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

  Lee Atwater

  Spiritual, Heart, Soul

  Life Interview, January 1991.

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• Whatever may be the talents of the persons who meet together in [American] society, the very shape, form, and arrangement of the meeting is sufficient to paralyze conversation. The women invariably herd together at one part of the room, and the men at the other ... The gentlemen spit, talk of elections and the price of produce, and spit again. The ladies look at each other's dresses till they know every pin by heart.

  Frances Trollope

  Heart, Men, Gentleman

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• The beauty of being black in American society is that black has always been an inclusive definition. White has always been an exclusive definition. I think one of the challenges for white people is to figure out how to have a more inclusive picture of who their families are, of who they are.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Thinking, White, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does not like to see anything that comes in response, and accuses one of anger as if it were an unnatural response.

  Randall Robinson

  Country, America, Self

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• I believe it is essential to have English as the official language of our National Government, for the English language is the tie that binds the millions of immigrants who come to America from divergent backgrounds. We should, and do, encourage immigrants to maintain and share their traditions, customs and religions, but the use of English is essential for immigrants and their children to participate fully in American society and achieve the American dream.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Dream, Children, Believe

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• 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.

  Douglas A. Blackmon

  War, Dark, Rights

  Douglas A. Blackmon (2009). “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II”, p.394, Anchor

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• Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

  Paul Singer

  Liberty, Defense, Individual

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• Let's face it: The Jewish community is the most active political community in American society.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Community, Political, Faces

  "The World According to Zbig". Interview with Charles Gati, www.politico.com. November 27, 2013.

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• To all organic conceptions of life Americans oppose a mechanistic conception. In a society which has 'started from scratch', everything has the characteristic of being fabricated. In American society appearances are masks, not faces. At the same time, proponents of the American way of life are hostile to personality.

  Julius Evola

  Personality, Scratches, Way

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• There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective safety net in that country means that too many needy citizens fall by the wayside. That is not the path that Australia will tread. Nor do we want the burdens of nanny state paternalism that now weigh down many economies in Europe.

  John Howard

  Country, Fall, Mean

  Australia Day Address, January 25, 2006.

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• American society has tried so hard and so ably to defend the practice and theory of production for profit and not primarily for use that now it has succeeded in making its jobs and products profitable and useless.

  Paul Goodman

  Jobs, Practice, Use

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.26, New York Review of Books

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• I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that but I know that's just American society.

  Dean Smith

  Thinking, Records, Counting

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• The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony.

  Paul Goodman

  Media, Organization, Phony

  Paul Goodman (1962). “The Community of Scholars, 1962”

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• The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.

  John Adams

  Peace, Real, War

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• There's some homophobia within black community, but there's some strong homophobia throughout the whole of American society as well, particularly throughout the South to a degree, whether white or black. And since many of us migrated from the South, that could be a strong connection along those lines.

  Otis Moss III

  Strong, White, Community

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• North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Development, States, Modernity

  "Interview With Mario Vargas Llosa". Interview with Katharyn Rodemann, www.texasmonthly.com. November 2002.

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• Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.

  John M. Perkins

  Luxury, Survival, Essentials

  John M. Perkins (1993). “Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development”, p.93, Baker Books

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• Television thus illustrates the mixed blessings of technological change in American society. It is a new medium, promising extraordinary benefits: great educational potential, a broadening of experience, enrichment of daily life, entertainment for all. But it teaches children the uses of violence, offers material consumption as the answer to life's problems, sells harmful products, habituates viewers to constant stimulation, and undermines family interaction and other forms of learning such as play and reading.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Children, Educational, Reading

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• Everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified.

  Adolf Hitler

  Behaviour, Half, Americanism

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• Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Government, Political, Firsts

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2007). “Democracy in America: An Annotated Text Backgrounds Interpretations”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.

  Ronald Reagan

  Cornerstones

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

  Gerda Lerner

  Determination, Self, People

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