Quotes About Exceptionalism

your offering needs to stand out as never before.

if everyone was special, wouldn't that really mean that no one was special at all?

There is a view of Russian exceptionalism, that they are a unique civilisation, a view right since Ivan the Terrible that Russia is a special civilisation with a special culture. Putin is pushing that now.

America is a unique place. The value part of American foreign policy is something I think is very laudable, but it is uniquely American. And it is part of what makes America special.

I don't want to be another country. I want to be the United States of America, the greatest country in the world.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

Good women are rare too, none of them have come close

The world accommodates you for fitting in, but only rewards you for standing out.

The whole world is out of step, apart from me.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don't forget it.

Mitt Romney says he believes in America and that he will restore American exceptionalism. I have news for him, we already have an exceptional American as president and we believe in Barack Obama.

am nature's greatest miracle. Since the beginning of time never has there been another with my mind, my heart, my eyes, my ears, my hands, my hair, my mouth. None that came before, none that live today, and none that come tomorrow can walk and talk and move and think exactly like me.

And Americans always think international laws are for other people anyway

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself

Le monde est plein d'individus avides et égoïstes. C'est pourquoi l'être exceptionnel qui s'efforce de servir autrui généreusement et sans arrière-pensée possède un énorme avantage sur le reste de l'humanité, car il ne rencontre guère de concurrence.

For most things in life, the range between best and average is 30% or so. The best airplane flight, the best meal, they may be 30% better than your average one. What I saw with Woz was somebody who was fifty times better than the average engineer.

will not occur overnight. But it will occur soon—in but two or three generations, a time not much further removed from ours today than the founding of Israel 50 years ago. V. ISRAELI EXCEPTIONALISM Israel is different. In Israel the great temptation of modernity—assimilation—simply does not exist. Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity:

the most lovable of exceptional American qualities (is) our tradition of insisting that we are part of the middle class, even if we aren't, and of interacting with our fellow citizens as if we were all middle class.

a conviction of exceptionalism and superiority that seems vindicated by the facts, and thenceforth, circularly, shapes perception of the facts. We rule the world because we are superior; we are superior because we rule the world.

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three per day, but that is not a good way to live.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America, my fellow citizens — I do not say it in disparagement of any other great people — America is the only idealistic Nation in the world.

Indian history is the antidote to the pious ethnocentrism of American exceptionalism, the notion that European Americans are God's chosen people. Indian history reveals that the United States and its predecessor British colonies have wrought great harm in the world. We must not forget this—not to wallow in our wrongdoing, but to understand and to learn, that we might not wreak harm again.