People suffering, dying, and protesting all around you, while you think about dinner. If you’re trying to carry on while people around you die, your society is not collapsing. It’s already fallen down.
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Quotes tagged ‘United States’
The histories of the United States and Europe are ashamed of slavery, embarrassed by the colonial period and chagrined at the oppression of people of color and non-Christians. Your researchers and historians are deeply ashamed of the bloodsheds wrought in the name of religion between the Catholics a…
I'm here because I love America and I want to be part of it.
This is America. We don’t share land here.
— Taylor Sheridan, John Linson, John Dutton, Kevin Costner, imdb.com
Are we not, as the citizens of the United States, the owners of this country?
We want people to evaluate the United States being a Christian nation. It’s not. We are supposed to be a nation that doesn’t allow the government to dictate what is appropriate religious expression.
The United States of America is not about us versus them.
Wokescolds are the new representatives of moral panic. We've seen plenty of moral panic before in the United States, from worries about violent video games, to concern about allegations of sex abuse at day care facilities. But never have we seen a moral panic of the stunning breadth of today's woke…
This country is failing, in action and in imagination, over and over again already.
Nebraska: Honestly, it’s not for everyone.
The United States took away my stomach.
— Stuart Blumberg, Rodrigo De Souza, Gael Garcia Bernal, imdb.com
We say no to whites owning our land and they should go.… They can own companies and apartments…but not the soil. It is ours and that message should ring loud and clear in Britain and the United States…. There are white farmers who are still on the land…. That should never happen. They [whites] were…
It seems to me that the more Christian a country is the less likely it is to regard the death penalty as immoral. Abolition has taken its firmest hold in post-Christian Europe, and has least support in the church-going United States. I attribute that to the fact that, for the believing Christian, de…
I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.
I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heav…
I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.
The road to the establishment of an Islamic Republic in the United States starts slowly and subtly with the loss of the will to win. The road to this unique hell on earth is paved with the best intentions from our major institutions. This political/accommodation/appeasement approach is not simply a…
I think the two fundamental issues were that Donald Trump doesn't read anything. Let me accent that—anything. Nothing. If you're working for the president of the United States, that's an odd position because how do you get information to him? That's already a major hurdle. But then there's the secon…
My brother asked me which super power I'd like.. Apparently the united states wasn't a good answer.
While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which I had to paint a series of murals about the industries of the United States, a series that would constitute a new kind of plastic poem, depicting in color and form…