You know, this used to be a helluva good country. I can't understand what's gone wrong with it.

Easy Rider

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American decline America

Speaker

George Hanson

Actor

Jack Nicholson

Source

Easy Rider

Medium

Film

Genre

Road movie Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Easy Rider. Directed by Dennis Hopper. Pando Company Inc./Raybert Productions, 1969.

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It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his shock at seeing the buffalo, a few moments before proud and noble and full of the dignity of life, now stark and helpless, a length of inert meat, divested of itself, or his notion of its self, swinging grotesquely, mockingly, before him. It was not itself; or it was not that self that he had imagined it to be. That self was murdered; and in that murder he had felt the destruction of something within him, and he had not been able to face it. So he had turned away.

John Williams (novelist)

Butcher's Crossing

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Animal cruelty Man and animals Interconnectedness of all things

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John Williams (novelist)
Source
Butcher's Crossing
Medium
Novel
Genre
Western fiction Western
Language
English
Time
1960 1960s 20th century
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Citation

Williams, John. Butcher's Crossing. Macmillan, 1960, pt. 2, ch. 5.

Another quote about America

The love of wealth is therefore to be traced, as either a principal or accessory motive, at the bottom of all that the Americans do; this gives to all their passions a sort of family likeness.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America

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Love of money American character America

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Alexis de Tocqueville
Source
Democracy in America
Genre
Political literature
Language
French
Time
1840 1840s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 2, London: Saunders and Otley, 1840, bk. 3. ch. 17.

Current Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 2, bk. 3. ch. 17.

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Business is war. It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat. If my competitor were drowning, I'd walk over and I'd put a hose right in his mouth.

Ray Kroc

Founder

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Business competition Capitalism
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Ray Kroc
Actor
Michael Keaton
Source
Founder
Medium
Film
Genre
Drama (film) Drama
Language
English
Time
2016 2010s 21st century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Founder. Directed by John Lee Hancock, FilmNation Entertainment/The Combine/Faliro House Productions S. A., 2016.