America in the Fifties and Sixties Quotes

“Today's youth has not learned 'to see humor in misfortune,' because they have hardly known what misfortune is. They are being urged to do the opposite: they are being asked to declare a state of mourning and to make sadness and protest the rule in the midst of what must be considered--in view of the true state of the world--an incomparable example of well-being, justice, freedom, and prosperity.”
― Julián Marías, America in the Fifties and Sixties: Julián Marías on the United States