American Privately Built

Famous quotes containing the words american, privately and/or built:

“It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)

“Rape is a culturally fostered means of suppressing women. Legally we say we deplore it, but mythically we romanticize and perpetuate it, and privately we excuse and overlook it.”
—Victoria Billings (b. 1945)

“Even a nine story pagoda must be built up level by level.”
—Chinese proverb.