America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing except a tragic death wish to prevent us from reordering our priorities over the pursuit of war.
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America has an almost obscene infatuation with itself. Has there ever been a big, powerful country that is as patriotic as America? And patriotic in the tinniest way, with so much flag waving? You’d really think we were some poor little republic, and that if one person lost his religion for one hour, the whole […]
To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
Americans are a very receptive nation; and that is why our country has become the hot-bed of all kinds of religious and irreligious monstrosities that ever sprang from a human brain. There is no theory so absurd, no doctrine so irrational, no claim so extravagant, no fraud so transparent that it cannot find here numerous […]
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
We have about 60% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3% of its population. In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity. We need not […]
In his lifetime van Gogh painted 486 paintings. Oddly enough, 8975 of them are to be found in the United States.
The American mythology abounds in legends, some grounded in historical truth, some are the product of our wishful thinking. Among the legends is the belief that America has always acted benevolently, unselfishly, nobly in the world community. That legend never was an unqualified truth, but there was truth in it. There has been much less […]
(America is) still the best country for the common man – white or black… if he can’t make it here he won’t make it anywhere else.
