Famous quotes containing the words real and/or american:
“The real stumbling-block of totalitarian régimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men’s inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)