There is a big difference between being anti-American and being critical of the United States. Once again: critiques are appropriate and necessary, provided that they rest on facts and address real abuses, real errors and real excesses — without deliberately losing sight of America's wise decisions, beneficent interventions and salutary policies. But critiques of this kind — balanced, fair and well-founded are hard to find, except in America herself: in the daily press in weekly news magazines, on television and radio, and in highbrow monthly journals, which are more widely read than their equivalents in Europe.


p. 143. - Anti-Americanism (2003)

Jean-François Revel Quotes

There is a big difference between being anti-American and being critical of the United States. Once again: critiques are appropriate and necessary,...

There is a big difference between being anti-American and being critical of the United States. Once again: critiques are appropriate and necessary,...

There is a big difference between being anti-American and being critical of the United States. Once again: critiques are appropriate and necessary,...

There is a big difference between being anti-American and being critical of the United States. Once again: critiques are appropriate and necessary,...