- Feed http://quotationsbook.com/ Quotations Book Search <![CDATA[Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27580/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27580/ <![CDATA[I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2164/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2164/ <![CDATA[The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam...]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2142/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2142/ <![CDATA[Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2147/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2147/ <![CDATA[America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2158/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2158/ <![CDATA[There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2166/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2166/ <![CDATA[The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2167/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2167/ <![CDATA[America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2168/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2168/ <![CDATA[The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2179/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2179/ <![CDATA[America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2194/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2194/ <![CDATA[Good Americans when they die, go to Paris.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2205/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2205/ <![CDATA[I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2214/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2214/ <![CDATA[I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2241/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2241/ <![CDATA[America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2171/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2171/ <![CDATA[I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2175/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2175/ <![CDATA[Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/17575/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/17575/ <![CDATA[A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/17574/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/17574/ <![CDATA[An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35002/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35002/ <![CDATA[I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2240/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2240/ <![CDATA[You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/26565/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/26565/ <![CDATA[America is the best half-educated country in the world.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2160/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2160/ <![CDATA[America is a mistake, a giant mistake.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2193/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2193/ <![CDATA[In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32287/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32287/ <![CDATA[Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28169/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28169/ <![CDATA[Don't take it personally; take it professionally.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/47891/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/47891/ <![CDATA[Remember, remember Eleven September A despicable "terrorist plot" But, I've seen no evidence To truly discount An inside job This was not ]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/47408/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/47408/ <![CDATA[The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45795/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45795/ <![CDATA[Faith means not wanting to know what is true.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45796/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45796/ <![CDATA[I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45797/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45797/ <![CDATA[We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45798/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45798/ <![CDATA[Fear is the foundation of most government.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/17573/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/17573/ <![CDATA[Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19656/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19656/ <![CDATA[I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45803/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45803/ <![CDATA[Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own?]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45794/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45794/ <![CDATA[You do not need the bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45793/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45793/ <![CDATA[Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45815/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45815/ <![CDATA[I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake… Religion is all bunk.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45814/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45814/ <![CDATA[I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45813/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45813/ <![CDATA[People will then often say, ‘But surely it’s better to remain an Agnostic just in case?’ This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I’ve been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.)]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45812/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45812/ <![CDATA[Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45811/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45811/