American Society Quotes - Page 7

• Postal will be so politically incorrect and harsh, it's like a mirror to American society, and I don't think the movie will be well received by everybody. For example, Osama Bin Laden will be one of the lead characters - I think that shows the mood of the movie.

  Uwe Boll

  Character, Thinking, Mirrors

  "Uwe Boll bites back" by Ellie Gibson, www.eurogamer.net. February 15, 2006.

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• Well, as a militant feminist, I believe in complete equality with men: intellectual, professional, economic, social and sexual; they're all equally essential, and they're all equally lacking in American society today.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Believe, Men, Feminist

  "Playboy Interview: Madalyn Murray". "Playboy" Magazine, October 1965.

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• Every fascist state like Germany, France, or modern Poland takes away citizen's right to self-defense. Fascist Americans such as Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton want to take arms away from American society.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Self, Germany, Defense

  tvn24.pl, July 05, 2008.

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• American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.

  Nora Ephron

  Change, Taken, Going Away

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• Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Perseverance, Greed, Clarity

  Natalie Goldberg (1990). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life”, Bantam

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• The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.

  Margaret Halsey

  Self, People, Challenges

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• Cynicism, disillusionment, and a dispiriting sense of purposeless has cast a shadow over American society seriously draining it of any language or vision that might imagine a different sort of society from the dysfunctional, militarizing, and deeply unequal social order that marked the current historical period.

  Henry Giroux

  Order, Historical, Vision

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• Of course, there are also faculty who are discouraged from speaking critically about social issues because of the increasing assumption in American society that any form of critique which calls official power into question is somehow un-American. This absurd attempt to define any critique of official power as unpatriotic has a chilling effect on faculty, especially when such views and the names of the people to whom they are ascribed are widely disseminated in right-wing and dominant media outlets.

  Henry Giroux

  Names, Wings, Issues

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• But we need more than a broader understanding of what is a good society or a moral and political critique of the existing market fundamentalism engulfing American society, we also need to create new forms of solidarity, new and broad based social movements that move beyond the isolated and fractured politics of the current historical moment.

  Henry Giroux

  Moving, Political, Understanding

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C Cryn Johannsen, truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• I think Islam, for me, helped me see how similar we all are. If my views are not traditional it's because of being raised in American society. Things that are taboo in an Islamic society are magnified in this society: drinking, extramarital affairs, all kinds of stuff like that. I have to apply the human aspect of all our culture dictates . . .

  Chali 2na

  Drinking, Islamic, Thinking

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• While President Barack Obama has, in one sense, tipped his hand by saying that he wants judges with "empathy" for certain groups, he has in a more fundamental sense concealed the real goal - getting judges who will ratify an ever-expanding scope of the power of the federal government and an ever-declining restraint by the Constitution of the United States. This is consistent with everything else that Obama has done in office and is consistent with his decades-long track record of alliances with people who reject the fundamentals of American society.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Government, Hands

  "'Empathy' Versus Law: Part III" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 6, 2009.

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