QUOTES ON AMERICA
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. – GEORGES CLEMENCEAU When a customs official asked Oscar Wilde if he had anything to declare upon his arrival in the United States, Wilde replied, “Nothing but my genius.” An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. – GEORGE BERNARD SHAW In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact. – MARLENE DIETRJCH In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses. – CALVIN TRILLIN The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by a mass media notoriously phony. – PAUL GOODMAN America–just a nation of two hundred million…
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