It
is capitalist America that produced the modern
independent woman. Never in history have women
had more freedom of choice in regard to dress,
behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
-- Camille Paglia
1947-, American
Author, Critic, Educator
The voice of America has no undertones or
overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic
catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the
slightly metallic sound of a gramophone.
-- Vance Palmer
1885-1959,
Australian Author, Poet
The North American system only wants to consider
the positive aspects of reality. Men and women
are subjected from childhood to an inexorable
process of adaptation; certain principles,
contained in brief formulas are endlessly
repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches,
and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister
beings, the North American mothers and wives. A
person imprisoned by these schemes is like a
plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot
grow or mature.
-- Octavio Paz
1914-, Mexican
Poet, Essayist
We
are not afraid to entrust the American people
with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien
philosophies, and competitive values. For a
nation that is afraid to let its people judge
the truth and falsehood in an open market is a
nation that is afraid of its people.
-- Alexander Pope
1688-1744,
British Poet, Critic, Translator
