Very interesting collection of quotes on America

[darwinsturtle]

The 100% American is 99% an idiot. -- George Bernard Shaw

One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory. -- Chou En-Lai

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here. -- Charles Dickens

Their ... demeanour is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely destitute of humour, vivacity, or the capacity of enjoyment. -- Charles Dickens

I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation [the United States] in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth. -- Charles Dickens

America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless. -- Sigmund Freud

A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe is a phenomenon never before experienced since the beginning of time. I accuse the United States of being in a constant state of crime against humanity." -- Henry de Montherlant

Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred. -- Henry de Montherlant

White man speaks with forked tongue. -- Native American saying

America is the only nation in history which has gone miraculously gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation. -- Georges Clemenceau

If you're going to America, bring your own food. -- Fran Lebowitz

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. -- H.L. Mencken

It was wonderful to find America, put perhaps it would have been more wonderful to miss it. -- Mark Twain

The American has no language. He has dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth. -- Rudyard Kipling

America ... where laws and customs alike are based on the dreams of spinsters. -- Bertrand Russell

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors. -- Bertrand Russell

I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the street, on the road, or in the field, at the theatre, the coffee-house, or at home, he had never overheard Americans conversing without the word DOLLAR being pronounced between them. Such unity of purpose ... can ... be found nowhere else, except... in an ant's nest. -- Frances Trollope

The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians. -- Bobby Fischer

The United States is evil. There's this axis of evil. -- Bobby Fischer

One of the worst terrorist states in the world. -- Noam Chomsky

The United States is evil. -- Henry de Montherlant

Americans ... [have] wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason. -- Ward Churchill

The crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. -- John Brown

We have met the enemy and he is U.S. -- bumper sticker, 2003

The United States is in many ways the biggest ghetto in the world. -- Selma James

I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare. -- Malcolm X

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences. -- George Santayana

There is nothing redeemable about America. -- Ewuare Osayande

We believe the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans. -- Osama bin Laden

[Nate]

The 100% American is 99% an idiot. -- George Bernard Shaw

One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory. -- Chou En-Lai

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here. -- Charles Dickens

Their ... demeanour is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely destitute of humour, vivacity, or the capacity of enjoyment. -- Charles Dickens

I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation [the United States] in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth. -- Charles Dickens

America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless. -- Sigmund Freud

A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe is a phenomenon never before experienced since the beginning of time. I accuse the United States of being in a constant state of crime against humanity." -- Henry de Montherlant

Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred. -- Henry de Montherlant

White man speaks with forked tongue. -- Native American saying

America is the only nation in history which has gone miraculously gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation. -- Georges Clemenceau

If you're going to America, bring your own food. -- Fran Lebowitz

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. -- H.L. Mencken

It was wonderful to find America, put perhaps it would have been more wonderful to miss it. -- Mark Twain

The American has no language. He has dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth. -- Rudyard Kipling

America ... where laws and customs alike are based on the dreams of spinsters. -- Bertrand Russell

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors. -- Bertrand Russell

I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the street, on the road, or in the field, at the theatre, the coffee-house, or at home, he had never overheard Americans conversing without the word DOLLAR being pronounced between them. Such unity of purpose ... can ... be found nowhere else, except... in an ant's nest. -- Frances Trollope

The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians. -- Bobby Fischer

The United States is evil. There's this axis of evil. -- Bobby Fischer

One of the worst terrorist states in the world. -- Noam Chomsky

The United States is evil. -- Henry de Montherlant

Americans ... [have] wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason. -- Ward Churchill

The crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. -- John Brown

We have met the enemy and he is U.S. -- bumper sticker, 2003

The United States is in many ways the biggest ghetto in the world. -- Selma James

I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare. -- Malcolm X

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences. -- George Santayana

There is nothing redeemable about America. -- Ewuare Osayande

We believe the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans. -- Osama bin Laden

You cut and paste quite well. Otherwise, you are a total idiot...a true sniveling mental degenerate....a real bitch.

[darwinsturtle]

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[Nate]

You wrote:


You cut and paste quite well. Otherwise, you are a total idiot...a true sniveling mental degenerate....a real bitch.


Did you even bother reading any of the quotes, you vulgar, arrogant Yank?

Of course I did. They are largely the quotes of the lost. Plenty wrong with the USA to be found, but a medieval death cult leader like OBL is not someone I would quote with pride. You drip with arrogance and you are a coward. You speak like someone who has NEVER even set foot in the USA, so you really cannot critique it intelligently. And you call me arrogant? I live mostly overseas, and have been in more countries than you can count, and there is PLENTY to critique on the USA, but your silly myopic contrivance exposes you as the arrogant one. As I recall your last quote of the idiotic Russian nationalist line (Which is a shame, because so many Russians are quite intelligent)
You are simply a troll...flame on...but I will not have to wait long...you will soon be mocked by others...

[globetrotter]

Where are you from, Darwin?

[Nate]

Where are you from, Darwin?

Good luck trying to flush this one out of the bushes...what is your guess...the UK? he comes across like a lot of the Euro-trash I meet in SA...

[globetrotter]

Where are you from, Darwin?

Good luck trying to flush this one out of the bushes...what is your guess...the UK? he comes across like a lot of the Euro-trash I meet in SA...

Austrailia. In which case the natives who lived there for 50,000 years prior to the colonists abrogates his above quotes.

England/Europe. I haven't gotten into a discussion with a European lately about how America sucks, but if I did I would simply mention this:

"Why would any nation hold up as an exemplar a continent of nations that tried to kill everyone twice in a 15 year period? Such a group of nations would make a terrible moral, ethical, cultural or legal example to any society."

This is, simply put, overlooked in any history of Europe. Bluntly put, Europe is not worthy of admiration, not after 1914-1918 and 1933-1945.

But I have never seen this expressed, ever, anywhere. I do know that Germans consider themselves uniquely qualified to point out errors of genocide, but is that wise? Making the foxes the moral guardians of the chicken coop AFTER their ancestral foxes killed and ate all the chickens? Same for the USA being the gatekeeper of nuke tech worldwide, and the USA is the only nation ever to explode nukes in combat over targets.

It just doesn't make logical sense. Moral leaders DO NOT engage in the behaviour people want to discourage.

[darwinsturtle]

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[Nate]

"Would you like it if I called your women "ugly, hideous-looking cuntrags?" Because that's what most of them are. UGLY! And the worst part is, they're ugly on the inside, and have nothing but scrambled eggs between their ears."


Haha...at least we can agree on that...but they are not "My women" and the quote about Peruvian women? I don't know where you got that, but I find many Peruvian women pleasant and agreeable. And my comments about Guatemalan women? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder...or not. You paint a list of quotes that draws all Americans as the devil incarnate and accuse others of being arrogant? What would that make YOU? The Ugly Aussie?
From your comment I might gather that you did travel within the USA...I would think that you would have observed that quite a few American women many even be attractive...but most likely it is only skin deep...and the poor fool who falls for their charms will regret
it bitterly. You see, I might even end up agreeing with you about something...
If you are from Australia, perhaps I could collect a list of quotes that defined you as an aborigine killing, sheep chasing, beer drunk, and a decedent of convicts who now spends his time molesting children in Thailand...I am sure that fits the bill for some Aussies...so how would you react if I painted all Aussies as being just that? Australia is evil...etc etc...Well I am willing to consider Aussies on on individual basis...what about you? There is never an argument or position too absurd that a "learned man" cannot be attached to it.
The USA is perhaps in a terminal decline. Significant remnant portions of the population will end up elsewhere and the world will
re-align. What happens in Asia? That could be anyone's guess. Smaller Asian countries may become vassal states to China. What would Australia become? Australia could hardly stand up to China on it's own..and it is sitting on all those resources...good thing it is
not my problem...

[globetrotter]

Don't assume ANYTHING!!! You don't know me, have never met me, and you don't know how many countries to which I have traveled. For you to boast the number of countries you've visited sounds immature and childish, and at worst fulfills the very stereotype of the ugly American.

For you to mention "you don't know how many countries to which I have traveled" is also immature and childish.

You want a debate? You got one, if you chose to stay and discuss. Or, as your posting history suggests, you might leave for another 4 weeks, return with one post, then leave again. You are likely a Russian Nationalist who is widely traveled, or a Russian or Chinese .Gov employee whose job it is to undermine US ideology. I see your kind on Facebook, YouTube and other fora.

I look forward to an intellectually honest debate where you cannot rely upon the words of others and must rely upon your own wits.

Shall we?

[Nate]

Don't assume ANYTHING!!! You don't know me, have never met me, and you don't know how many countries to which I have traveled. For you to boast the number of countries you've visited sounds immature and childish, and at worst fulfills the very stereotype of the ugly American.

For you to mention "you don't know how many countries to which I have traveled" is also immature and childish.

You want a debate? You got one, if you chose to stay and discuss. Or, as your posting history suggests, you might leave for another 4 weeks, return with one post, then leave again. You are likely a Russian Nationalist who is widely traveled, or a Russian or Chinese .Gov employee whose job it is to undermine US ideology. I see your kind on Facebook, YouTube and other fora.

I look forward to an intellectually honest debate where you cannot rely upon the words of others and must rely upon your own wits.

Shall we?

I think you may have a long wait....you caught the usage..."and you don't know how many countries to which I have traveled." certainly sounds like a well schooled ESL individual...and you spotted the "hit and run" style...while it would be interesting if he would
out himself and engage you in real debate. One that would pose the list of quotes he offered as some kind of portrait of America ( or of anywhere else for that matter) certainly comes across as a crude propagandist, hence my original diagnosis. I would like to be proven wrong.

[globetrotter]

What is ironic is that I currently consider the US to be more like what he believes than not.

It is the blindness to other nations similar behaviour that irks me. Russians ignore the gulags, Europeans gloss over the wars, Chinese ignore their human rights, etc.

[Nate]

What is ironic is that I currently consider the US to be more like what he believes than not.

It is the blindness to other nations similar behaviour that irks me. Russians ignore the gulags, Europeans gloss over the wars, Chinese ignore their human rights, etc.

You sum it up quite nicely. And of course as I suspected, he did not take your challenge- he ( or she?) posts his hit piece and then hides.

[ladislav]

Gentlemen, let's be civil. I think these quotes touched someone's love of his country to the quick. All nation states are imperfect and I bet we can find the same quotes about every nation. Most of the quotations about the US presented here were a bit bitter and arrogant but they were impressions - and only negative ones. My view on the US is that it has great professional and educational opportunities bot for some people it is not complete and those people should add a few more countries to the USA to live a complete life and avoid the aspects of the US which they do not like.
The people making bad comments about the US probably went back to where they came from and lived happily there. Just like many Americans who went to Europe and did not like it and talked about the miserable French and the nasty whining Brits etc and went back home.
Basically we are here to see how we, US citizens can gain more out of life in terms of social opportunities while we can also criticize life back home. I guess we just do not like for others to criticize us, just like they do not want us to criticize them.
Anyway, my point is, do not take these so much to heart. Let's concentrate on dating!

Here are more balanced quotes, by the way:

http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/America/

[Nate]

Gentlemen, let's be civil. I think these quotes touched someone's love of his country to the quick. All nation states are imperfect and I bet we can find the same quotes about every nation. Most of the quotations about the US presented here were a bit bitter and arrogant but they were impressions - and only negative ones. My view on the US is that it has great professional and educational opportunities bot for some people it is not complete and those people should add a few more countries to the USA to live a complete life and avoid the aspects of the US which they do not like.
The people making bad comments about the US probably went back to where they came from and lived happily there. Just like many Americans who went to Europe and did not like it and talked about the miserable French and the nasty whining Brits etc and went back home.
Basically we are here to see how we, US citizens can gain more out of life in terms of social opportunities while we can also criticize life back home. I guess we just do not like for others to criticize us, just like they do not want us to criticize them.
Anyway, my point is, do not take these so much to heart. Let's concentrate on dating!

Here are more balanced quotes, by the way:

http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/America/

Ladislav-

Do you really think this guy has the slightest interest in anything about meeting women abroad? Of course not. As the USA is now, I don't love it much. What is so annoying is that he is hack spewing the same idiocy I hear all the time from Euro-trash in Latin America and SE Asia, and it is not political discourse, it is personal attack and intended as such. Even Germans tire of hearing mindless people
assume that they are somehow personally attached to the genocides of the Jews and others, when in fact they might have been born 20 years after it was all over, but they are supposed to be somehow personally responsible. Globetrotter's diagnosis of who this guy likely is, is a good bet. Any gentlemen here are being civil- what makes you think this guy is any kind of a gentleman? He does not in any way expose himself as to his perspective, and simply throws out these ignorant rants, and we should think him a gentleman? For a man who does not even introduce himself? Of course he is a troll- that is pretty obvious. I thought troll ass-kicking was an acceptable amusement...