(88 quotes found)
“We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.”
Max Beerbohm
“Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.”
Ursula K. LeGuin
“If the American dream is for Americans only, it will remain our dream and never be our destiny”
Rene de Visme Williamson
“Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.”
Douglas MacArthur
“The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living.”
David Abrahansen
“We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.”
Bill Clinton
“The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam...”
J. G. Ballard
“Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?”
Dan Castellaneta
“People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.”
Florence King
“I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.”
Eldridge Cleaver
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