"So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids."

People, Culture

13

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids."

Exlpore more People quotes

"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."

Barbara Amiel, British Journalist

People, Revolution, Historians, Will

"Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community."

Ed Smith, American Politician

People, Community, Job, Living

"The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people."

Elijah Wood, American Actor

People, Lying

"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."

Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, Angolan Statesman

People, Ability

"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body."

Mark Pryor, American Politician

People, Body, Washington

"People are essentially red meat. They are."

Max Cannon, American Artist

People,

"I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging."

Barbara Hershey, American Actress

People,

"The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people."

Ernst Toller, German Playwright

People, Revolution

"In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved."

Rupert Murdoch, American Publisher

People, Ideas, Hope, Example

"My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people."

Dusty Springfield, British Musician

People, Sexuality

Explore more quotes by Todd Gitlin

"There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life."

Life, Patriotism, Nationalism

"To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them."

Power, People

"Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history."

History, Biography

"The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy."

Politics, America, Fancy, Past

"The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism."

Patriotism, Americans, Name

"Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives."

People, America, Americans, Fun

"I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society."

Society, Media

"I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties."

Life, Politics, Difference, Results

"Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't."

Patriotism, Want

"I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States."

Power, Corporate, Right, States