The Ugly American Quotes

#1. The ugly American is not always the arrogant American overseas. He can just as easily be the ignorant American at home.

Martha Peterson

#2. It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic, acquisitive evil. Ugly evil. The ugly American. The ugly American at his ugly worst. That's exactly what it is.

Allen Ginsberg

#3. By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist - was firmly in place in Europe.

Simon Schama

#4. Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

Robert C. Solomon

#5. There was something particularly American about it--blaming yourself for bad luck--that resistance to seeing your life as affected by social forces, a tendency to attribute larger problems to individual behavior. The ugly reverse of the American Dream.

Philipp Meyer

#6. I deserve a fair trial, like every other American citizen. A large amount of ugly, malicious misinformation has been released to the media about me.

Michael Jackson

#7. The coverage of Central America in recent months points up one of the ugly truths about the American press: the better the news, the less of it you get. As the war began to turn against the Communist guerillas in El Salvador, there was a palpable dip in the attention paid to it.

Fred Barnes

#8. I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page.

Diplo

#9. I know sneakers aren't very French-I should be wearing pointy boots or scary heels-but at least they aren't white. It's true what they say about white sneakers. Only American tourists wear them,big ugly things made for mowing grass or painting houses.

Stephanie Perkins

#10. Be simple and sincere.

Sathya Sai Baba

#11. A good idea will awake, mind, body and soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. This was the fall of 2004. The wider world was deeply fucked, and home also. Two American wars raging - bloodbaths each, bloodbath major and bloodbath minor, ugly, squirrelly hateful clandestine wars marked by betrayal, incompetence and corruption. Don't get me started.

Claire Messud

#13. Paranoid is what people who are trying to take advantage call you in an effort to get you to drop your guard.

Matt Damon

#14. I put confidence in the American people, in their ability to sort through what is fair and what is unfair, what is ugly and what is unugly.

George H. W. Bush

#15. The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.

Mark Steyn

#16. I was so tired of his being even-keeled in the face of all that was upsetting and ugly and illogical.

Sara Novic

#17. I romanticize. I live with the ghosts of Elvis and Frank Sinatra. It seems so glamorous. They were American men who don't exist anymore. But there are ugly things about them, too.

Brandon Flowers

#18. The stupa is a white dome with a conical stone tower emerging from its center. There are two eyes painted on the tower, the all seeing eyes of Buddha. They're purple, and look a little sinister, like an Old Testament Buddha.

Joshua Isard

#19. Americans are ugly unwashed clods that live off of government cheese. If I could, I'd take every living American, grind them up into a fine paste and use that paste to feed the dolphins, because they are neglected by the evil Americans.

Thom Yorke

#20. Whether you attribute it to some mysterious triple package or to your own Horatio Alger story, to succeed in America is, somehow, to be complicit with the idea of America - which means that at some level you've made peace with its rather ugly past.

Vijay Iyer

#21. If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

Curt Flood

#22. There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

Philip K. Dick

#23. American products are marvels of production and functionality, but were unnecessarily and unbearably ugly, noisy smelly and offensive.

Raymond Loewy