Edmund Morris Professions : Writer Born : May 27, 1940 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Edmund Morris History admires the wise, but elevates the brave. Edmund Morris brave wise bravery I’m aware of the- the fact that people elsewhere in the world think differently from us. I can sort of see us, us Americans with their eyes. And not all that I see is- is attractive. I see an insular people who are- are insensitive to foreign sensibilities, who are lazy, obese, complacent and increasingly perplexed as to why we are losing our place in the world to people who are more dynamic than us and more disciplined Edmund Morris eye people thinking Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital. Edmund Morris violence eye hands There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism. Edmund Morris criticism praise flood Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors