Quotes About Exceptionalism

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Nadie puede estimarse realmente perfecto si no sobrepasa en mucho lo que se encuentra normalmente.

Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much everyone is on a tail of at least one of them. We may collect strange memorabilia or read esoteric books, hold unusual religious beliefs or wear odd-sized shoes, suffer rare diseases or enjoy obscure movies.

What Makes These People Different?

A Nazi leader outmaneuvers his opponents by manufacturing a general conviction that the present moment is exceptional, and then transforming that state of exception into a permanent emergency.

Influential Americans such as Charles Lindbergh opposed war with the Nazis under the slogan "America First." It is those who were considered exceptional, eccentric, or even insane in their own time—those who did not change when the world around them did—whom we remember and admire today.

A Nazi leader outmaneuvers his opponents by manufacturing a general conviction that the present moment is exceptional, and then transforming that state of exception into a permanent emergency. Citizens then trade real freedom for fake safety.

The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive.

high-powered mutant of some kind who was never even considered for mass production. He was too weird to live and too rare to die.… Hunter

The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.

its not bad to be different. Sometimes it's the mark of being very very talented.

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.

American exceptionalism is missionary. It holds that the United States has an obligation to spread its values to every part of the world. China's exceptionalism is cultural.

In the Chinese version of exceptionalism, China did not export its ideas but let others come to seek them.

En medio del vasto rebaño humano, el hombre excepcional siempre se siente solo

The Europeanizing and Asianizing of ancient Egypt are instances of the exceptionalist rule, whereby an ancient African nation (or group of nations) is literally taken out of Africa because of an analytical reduction of civilization into things European and Asian.

That everything exceptional is doomed to be destroyed derives from the symbolic rule that no player must be bigger than the game itself.

A born king is a very rare being.

We [the United States] are not every other country. And models that work elsewhere may not have the same impact here.

The degree to which Americans talk about themselves as a special, unique country has often struck me as a little grandiose. You don't hear the French, or Brits, or Australians talk about themselves that way - though they may well feel it.

... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.

Good; and what of him? ALEXANDER They say he is a very man per se, And stands alone. CRESSIDA So do all men, unless they are drunk, sick, or have no legs.

Give me one man from among ten thousand if he is the best