William Pfaff - Americans Quotes

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The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.

William Pfaff

But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.

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For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to assume that this is all over; but it very rash to do so.

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The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

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We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.

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Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.

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