È questo che ammiro nella gioventù italiana, il lento scemare delle ambizioni, la consapevolezza che il meglio è di gran lunga alle spalle.
Noi americani abbiamo molto da imparare dal loro declino pieno di grazia.
Tags: america italians italia ambizioni americani consapevolezza declino giovani gioventù impegno italiani
Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse. Why is it not more apt to anticipate and provide for reform? Why does it not cherish its wise minority? Why does it cry and resist before it is hurt? Why does it not encourage its citizens to be on the alert to point out its faults, and do better than it would have them?
Henry David ThoreauTags: society america law government rights humane unjust
In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but people. While in the U.S. a wheelchair stands out as an explicitly separate experience from the mainstream, in the Israel and Arab worlds it is just another thing that can go wrong in a place where things go wrong all the time.
John HockenberryTags: america israel disability wheelchair accessibility
Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...
David MazzucchelliTags: america usa slavery taxes founding-fathers revolutionaries british founders
And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not earning their daily bread the kind of docility I had never expected from Americans even after so many years of our decline. Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion.
Gary ShteyngartTags: america united-states guilt americans defeat docility decline exhaustion
Asia is an entertainment, Europe is a dream, America is an imprisonment and Rest is a nightmare.
Santosh KalwarTags: america funny joke europe countries asia poetry-quotes
As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
Abraham LincolnTags: equality tyranny america hypocrisy race racism russia bigotry despotism know-nothings
America, the plum blossoms are falling.
Allen GinsbergTags: america poem plum-blossoms
Others saw in the trend still another instance of a disturbing tendency in the American suburb: the longing for withdrawal, for self-enclosure, for expensive isolation.
Steven MillhauserTags: america withdrawal isolationism suburbs enclosure futureshock
America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.
John PiperTags: excess america entertainment amusement
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