Top 1200 American Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

A lot of these so-called left positions are actually centrist by the standards of the American people, just not by members of the American Congress.

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

My central focus is what are we doing to protect the American people and the American homeland? Afghanistan and Pakistan are critical elements in that process.

Trump's first statement as president, his inaugural address, was an unprecedented assault on American democracy and American values.

It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

I'm really into architecture, I'm a member of the Brutalist Appreciation Society; I'm a member of the Postmodern Society. I write letters to save buildings.

I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.

I bless a society that tolerates and supports an eternal childhood for some, a childhood whose playfulness can, in turn, be a blessing to society.

I'm Mexican-American, but for a long time I was pushed out of any references to Mexican-American writers. It was easier to come out as a gay man than it was to come out as a Mexican-American.

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.

American leagues - baseball, ice hockey, American football and basketball - you are the best. But in a global sport like soccer, you're not.

Genealogy of American Finance is a treasure trove of information on American banking and its history, in an unusual -- and unusually useful -- format.

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

A good American friend of mine who has lived in India for many years, working as a journalist, was recently denied entry to the country because he wrote on Kashmir. This is a reflection of fractures within society. Pakistan, too, has to focus on the Lashkar [Lashkar-i-Taiba] and other similar groups and work towards some sort of sensible compromise on Kashmir.

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 behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?

I'm not an American as you know, and to deliver "Jackie" today in the United States and understanding the role of women in society is changing and I hope it just gets better and better - and also in cinema. There's very few interesting roles today for women in cinema. It's getting better and stronger and, and I'm proud to be part of that.

A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists.

Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.

Yes, we become stronger when black and whites, Latino, Asian American, Native American, when all of us stand together.

When you become a citizen, you are an American and questioning somebody's Americanness because they disagree with you - is about one of the most un-American things I can think of.

And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.

I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.

People who refuse to integrate into our society and want to live apart in their ghetto don't make our society strong.

We have directed the closure of P.R.C. Consulate General Houston, in order to protect American intellectual property and American's private information.

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.

A new generation of more educated people started to be active. Then society required freedom, society demanded freedom.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

Having a place in this society is far less important than creating a society in which one would want to have a place.

The Muslim contribution to the future of America is to not only speak out as Muslims, but to also speak out as citizens in the name of our common values. Our main contribution is to reconcile the American society with its own values, those that are not in contradiction to Islam. We have a duty of consistency.

Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

In North America, what happens often is that they put race before nationhood. Everyone here is Hispanic-American, Chinese-American, African-American. But really, we're just North Americans of all these different descents. The only time I notice North Americans becoming national is when a war happens or a crisis happens.

My concept is drag queens are not a reflection of society, they are a fun house reflection of society where we bend, and twist and manipulate the anxieties we all feel.

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.

Dying well is part of living well and one day our society will surely recognize that. But I suppose we'll only know that we've reached that promised land on the day that the President of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society begins his address to the Annual General Meeting with the words: 'Tremendous news for the society. It's been our most successful year ever. So successful, indeed, that we now have no members at all.

I am honored to have Ajamu Baraka as a running mate. I think he brings enormous credibility in the disenfranchised communities, not just African American but Latino, Asian American and Native American. He is a recognized advocate for racial justice, economic justice and human rights, and I think this conversation is only just begun. It is very important.

Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities - a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.

American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

As a historian of American and African-American religion, I know that the Trayvon Martin moment is just one moment in a history of racism in America that, in large part, has its underpinnings in Christianity and its history. Those of us who teach American Religion have a responsibility to tell all of the story, not just the nice touchy-feely parts.

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

Every American deserves a shot at the American dream.

The church can challenge society, but society also challenges the church. That's good. We should be humble enough to be able to accept that.

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised. Obama and the Democrats have a fight with the American people, not with me.

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

I have an American passport, but I don't always remember I'm an American citizen.

One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.

Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.