Lydia Millet Quotes

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

America is an unsolvable problem: a nation divided and deeply in hate with itself. If it was a startup, we'd understand how unfixable the situation is; most of us would leave for a fresh start, and the company would fall apart. America is MySpace.

I can’t stand it anymore. I can’t stand what’s happening to this country.

Forty-eight hours is a long time in politics

Mr. President, If you don’t do something and do it right away, I don’t know what is going to happen to this country.

History shows that populism polarizes society, weakens economies, and undermined representative democracy.

I'm obsessed with the mess that's America.

America is in such trouble.

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

Something must be done.

[On Russia's civil disorder:] Comrade deputies, the most essential thing now is to overcome the crisis, to restore order in the country.

Part of the attraction of the riots is the looting, which seems to be almost unrestrained. I always thought that when rioting breaks out, looters must be shot. Otherwise the situation will get entirely out of hand. [Lyndon] Johnson has made all the right gestures but it is exceedingly difficult to see any end to the tension, let alone the violence which seems to be in some way part of the American way of life.

If we don't do something real soon, I think you'll have to agree that we're going to be forced either to use the ballot or the bullet. It's one or the other in 1964. It isn't that time is running out—time has run out!

The Republican Party has more cultural conflicts than the Hapsburg Empire.

When your house is on fire—that is not the time to talk

There can be no peace or coexistence between the Islamic faith and non-Islamic societies and political institutions. The failure of these institutions to function and the instability of these regimes in Muslim countries, manifest in frequent changes and coups d'état, is most often the consequence of their a priori opposition to Islam, as the fundamental and foremost feeling of the people in those countries.

Why do today's non-stop shocks -- why don't they spur us into action? Why don't they produce leaps? Especially when it comes to climate change.

I don't think many people would disagree that the world is fractured.

We are a divided nation in the worst sense of the word, and we don't hear the other side.

Climate change is moving faster than we are, but we don't give up because we know that climate action is the only path.

From my point of view, the Dreyfus affair is most interesting because it was sparked by a single cause celebre. Just one court case - one disputed trial - plunged an entire country into an angry debate, creating unresolvable divisions between people who had previously not known that they disagreed with one another.

Without banging a drum or getting on a soap box, there are always ebbs and tides in this country in terms of the political and social climate that we might be dealing with at any given moment.

The Trump administration is hammering again and again on the idea that Democrats will bring chaos and violence to American streets.

Profound political shifts - events that suddenly split families and friends, cut across social classes, and dramatically rearrange alliances - do not happen every day in Europe, but neither are they unknown.

Trump is an anathema to America's democracy and values.