Brin-Jonathan Butler Quotes

If a narrow-minded FBI agent slipped into Aaron McGruder’s Los Angeles penthouse apartment, his eyes would get wide. Just inside the front door is a photograph of Fidel Castro riding into Havana Jan. 1, 1959.

Exploring Castro's pawns in Cuba and exposing anything negative also makes you a pawn to all his enemies 90 miles away. Both sides don't have much of a track record for nuance of opinion.

Comandante Fidel Castro is a gifted communicator. He is a brilliant, brilliant mind. But the thing that struck me most about him was he was not a "nationalist."

In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it.

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists.

There is less Francophobia in your country than there is anti-Americanism in my country.

The American Motion Picture Industry will do all within its power to upbuild and strengthen the spirit of Americanism within our people.

There is a strong propaganda value to history as taught in American Schools

It's beyond me how anybody can look at these protestors and call them anything other than what they are: anti-American, anticapitalist, pro-Marxist communists.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

History is the most dangerous substance that the chemistry of the intellect has created…. I makes men dream, intoxicates them, breeds false memories in them, aggravates their responses, takes up their ancient grievances, torments them in their sleep, carries them into the delirium of grandeur or else of persecution, and turns nations bitter, intolerable, and vain.

I’m not going to let the Communists take this government, and they’re doing it right now.

There seemed to be no willingness to fight on the part of the dissident forces [anti Communists in Indonesia] … The dissident leaders have been unable to provide their soldiers with any idea of why they were fighting.

The advertising men made it clear that there were two ways of looking at ideas in a war against fascism. Those of us who were working on the project believed ideas were to be fought for; the advertising men believed they were to be sold. The audience, those at home in wartime, were not 'citizens' or 'people.' They were 'customers.'

Yevtushenko is a high member of his country's establishment, and he lies terribly about the United States to his Russian readers.

I happen to think that the Latino audience is an essentially traditional audience and will go to Fox News for traditional American values.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

For all those who experienced it, the Spanish Civil War was devastating.

Castro branded Rigondeaux a 'traitor' and 'Judas' to the Cuban people.

Cheap anti-Americanism will eventually have consequences.

American patriotism is now jingoism. American Greatness is made fun of. The concept of "Make America Great Again" or American exceptionalism is lampooned. It is impugned. It is attacked. The effort to globalize our society and make us feel, as many of us as possible, that there's nothing special about being an American, that we ought to think of ourselves as citizens of the world, and in that context America is a problem because we have too much, we've done too much, we owe too much, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.