The American People Quotes

“Religion is such an icky, sticky thing, full of tortuous—well, everything. Why is it so essential for man to be forced, for that is what religion relies on, force, to believe in anything but himself? And this is what John Winthrop should represent for us: the utter disdain he and Puritanism have for the self, for the human, for the human being.”
― Larry Kramer, The American People: Volume 1: Search for My Heart

“There is no love in Puritanism. It turns out that these monsters that won't allow any deviation from that rigid orthodoxy are obsessed with frigging, fucking, wanking, twatty sex. Don't do it, they screamed, while that's exactly what they did. My mother's cunt was all bent out of shape to prove it...All those Puritan preachers were vindictive, vengeful men spouting hateful thoughts and threats, and it's disheartening that they're still taught in the schools with reverence. They were shits. And they spouted shit. And a goodly portion of the world is still spouting shit.”
― Larry Kramer, The American People: Volume 1: Search for My Heart

“If Fred's history will seem less unbiased then some would wish, let it never be overlooked that it is no small task to record a history of hate when one is among the hated.”
― Larry Kramer, The American People: Volume 1: Search for My Heart

“Like the deepest secrets in a psychoanalysis, our lives stay hidden, harboring our precious information like a piece of decaying food behind a major molar in our country’s maw,”
― Larry Kramer, The American People: Volume 1: Search for My Heart

“And you can't do anything without God. God hates us, you know. That's why so many believe we have to love Him so much. What feeble goddamned pussies we are.”
― Larry Kramer, The American People: Volume 1: Search for My Heart

“Dangerous, free time on your hands. You can only jerk off so often.”
― Larry Kramer, The American People: Volume 1: Search for My Heart

“Irwin F. Gellman’s Secret Affairs: FDR, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles,”
― Larry Kramer, The American People: Volume 1: Search for My Heart

“That Massachusetts Bay Colony had been set up in England as a corporation, enabling one hundred white male religious fanatics to elect their leader to rule in a completely totalitarian way.”
― Larry Kramer, The American People: Volume 1: Search for My Heart