"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others."
― Jose Saramago
Topic(s):
Attitude
More From Jose Saramago
- "I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of ‘cultural lamination’ that the USA is perpetrating on the planet."
- "I never appreciated ‘positive heroes’ in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more ‘productive’ literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are."
- "Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought."
More In Attitude
- "My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward."― Parker Posey
- "That’s what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I’ve got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can’t go there, then… Everyone gets so upset with me, I can’t win."― Liz Phair
- "Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style."― David Byrne