"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face."

Camus, Albert | Absurdity | 6 bookmarks

"What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world."

Baudrillard, Jean | America | 1 bookmarks

"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."

Baudrillard, Jean | America | 1 bookmarks

"It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe."

Beveridge, Albert J. | America | 1 bookmarks

"The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America."

Bloom, Allan | America | 1 bookmarks

"Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us."

Boorstin, Daniel J. | America | 2 bookmarks

"America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got."

Bunch, Charlotte | America | 1 bookmarks

"If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe."

Dickens, Charles | America | 2 bookmarks

"I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged."

Dylan, Bob | America | 2 bookmarks

"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. | America | 2 bookmarks