#america

One day I was telling him that I thought that cars had replaced guns as phallic symbols for American men, and I thought it was interesting that he had one that was so small and fast. The next day he gave me the Datsun and went out and bought a Lincoln. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#datsun #guns #phallic #men

Tourists came around and looked into our tipis. That those were the homes we choose to live in didn`t bother them at all. The untied the door, opened the flap, and barged right in, touching our things, poking through our bedrolls, inspecting everything. It boggles my mind that tourists feel they have the god-given right to intrude everywhere. ↗

— Russell Means

#tipi #tourism #tourist #white-people #men

For their part, the savage men appear to spend an inordinate amount of time lounging around their lodges, smoking and gossiping among themselves...so that it occurs to me that perhaps our cultures are not so different after all: the women do all the work while the men do all the talking. ↗

— Jim Fergus

#may-dodd #native-americans #men

The dead do not need to rise. They are a part of the earth now and the earth can never be conquered. For the earth endureth forever. It will outlive all systems of tyranny. Those who have entered it honorably, and no men ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain, already have achieved immortality. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#on-the-american-dead-in-spain #the-spanish-earth #men

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#books #men

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#american-society #consumerism #wanting #inspirational

Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists. ↗

— Thorne Smith

#am #america #freely #greatest #hair

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people... ↗

— T. Rafael Cimino

#greed #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #political-commentary #political-philosophy

You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat.Try fighting with your head for a change . . .it's a good one, even if it does resist learning. ↗

— Harper Lee

#classic #change

America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products. ↗

— Thomas L. Friedman

#capitalism #economics #freedom #liberty #politics