Unamerican Quotes

#1. In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.

Owen Wister

#2. As for the tank, not only is it unAmerican and probably subversive to eat without watching stereo but also the racket from it would interfere even with a directional mike aimed at us from a distance . . .

Robert A. Heinlein

#3. Captain Black knew he was a subversive because he wore eyeglasses and used words like panacea and utopia, and because he disapproved of Adolf Hitler, who had done such a great job of combating unAmerican activities in Germany.

Joseph Heller

#4. He believed there was nothing essentially unAmerican about greed or lust - hey, those qualities were encouraged everywhere from Wall Street to Capitol Hill.

Jeffery Deaver

#5. It's strange, isn't it? You go on and on, or I do rather, seeing God knows what horrors and learning not to care or anyway not to care more than you need to do the job, and then something happens that gets right under your skin.

Pat Barker

#6. I don't want what we're doing to just end up as notes for a novel.

Ben Lerner

#7. A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.

Jack Layton

#8. When he left, you spent all your energy holding on to him. You could be happy if you let go.

Stephenie Meyer

#9. If happiness was in money or power, then America should be the happiest country in the world, but it is not.

Satish Kumar