Quotes About Exceptionalism

Exceptionalism"—the view that the United States has a right to impose its will because it knows more, sees farther, and lives on a higher moral plane than other nations—was to them not a platitude, but the organizing principle of daily life and global politics.

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common. —Satchel Paige

America still is an exceptional country. We love to lead and we love to win. And we do it, when we take on any challenge and when we take - we support our friends.

El único que tal vez no sea el hombre es el que no se parece a los otros. El que rebasa o no alcanza a los demás. El que crece o se disminuye hasta quedar fuera de las estaturas normales. Ése no, porque pierde la medida cordial de la semejanza.

If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism.

This time is different" is the motto of uniqueness bias.

Why, America's the only free nation on earth. Besides! Country's too big for a revolution. No, no! Couldn't happen here!

A lot of liberals don't believe in American exceptionalism, but it doesn't mean they don't love America.

Si siempre intentas ser normal, nunca descubrirás lo extraordinario que puedes llegar a ser.

A stable social system is necessary, but every stable system hitherto devised has hampered the development of exceptional artistic or intellectual merit. How much murder and anarchy are we prepared to endure for the sake of great achievements such as those of the Renaissance?

The few marvelous exceptions have marked me forever, but I wonder why so many believers believe so little of Jesus. Either He no longer does what the Bible says, or we don't give Him the chance.

To have a museum chronicling the great crime that was African slavery in the United States of America would be to acknowledge that the evil was here . Americans prefer to picture the evil that was there , and from which the United States-a unique nation, one without any certifiably wicked leaders throughout its entire history-is exempt. That this country, like every other country, has its tragic past does not sit well with the founding, and still all-powerful belief in American exceptionalism.

Governments unaccountable to law are tyrannies, whatever they might call themselves, no matter how exceptional and indispensable they declare themselves to be.

The U.S. is ruled by private interest groups and by the neoconservative ideology that history has chosen the U.S. as the 'exceptional and indispensable' country with the right and responsibility to impose its will on the world.

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

America had, I believe, a divine founding. Call it American exceptionalism if you like. But that makes America all the more vulnerable to God's judgment if we become accustomed to glamorizing war, excusing lies, and parading our might and dominance.

There is only one real evil in the world: mediocrity.

What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than to act better than traditional empires - committed to looting and conquest - have done. So that's American exceptionalism: an exceptionalism based on noble ideas, ideas that it holds itself to even when it falls short of them.

If you want someone to call you a traitor or accuse you of hating Britain, try suggesting that Britain is a normal nation or that our history is remarkable but not exceptional.

America's militarized brand of malignant exceptionalism is founded on the idea that the United States transcends history.

To go to the next level, you have to be special, and I look for those special qualities in those players, those qualities that I think will translate to the NFL.

Non vi è dubbio che una figura eroica, per il fatto solo della sua esistenza, domina per decenni e per secoli la vita spirituale. Nella vita dei fatti e della realtà, nella sfera della politica, ben di rado sono le figure eccezionali, gli uomini dalle idee pure, a decidere: decide invece la specie molto più meschina, ma più abile, degli uomini di sfondo.

Once the reader firmly grasps the truth of human exceptionalism under our Creator God, then the answers to confusing cultural issues begin to be clear.

In Scandinavia the standard of education is not only the best in the world, but the opportunities it presents are available to all, free of charge. This is the bedrock of Nordic exceptionalism.