# Quote — Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image

> Of all nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.

- Author: [Daniel J. Boorstin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-j-boorstin.md)
- Book: [The Image](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-j-boorstin/the-image.md)
- Page: 245
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Boorstin#The_Image:_A_Guide_to_Pseudo-Events_in_America_(1961)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-j-boorstin/the-image/of-all-nations

## More from this book

> As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America. has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

p. 257 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-j-boorstin/the-image/as-individuals-and.md)

> Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

p. 48 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-j-boorstin/the-image/celebrity-worship-and-hero-worship.md)

> A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

p. 57 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-j-boorstin/the-image/a-celebrity-is-a-person.md)