# Quote — Philip Roth, The Plot Against America

> Probably I couldn’t have done any worse—I might well have done a lot better—seeking solace from the two nuns on the Lyons Avenue bus than from someone reveling in the pleasures of the standard, petty corruptions that proliferate wherever people compete for even the tiniest advantages of rank.

- Author: [Philip Roth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-roth.md)
- Book: [The Plot Against America](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-roth/the-plot-against-america.md)
- Page: 217
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-roth/the-plot-against-america/probably-i-couldnt

## More from this book

> There’s a plot afoot all right, and I’ll gladly name the forces propelling it—hysteria, ignorance, malice, stupidity, hatred, and fear. What a repugnant spectacle our country has become! Falsehood, cruelty, and madness everywhere, and brute force in the wings waiting to finish us off.

p. 315 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-roth/the-plot-against-america/theres-a-plot.md)

> Monty was the most overbearing of my uncles, which probably accounted for why he was also the richest.

p. 122 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-roth/the-plot-against-america/monty-was-the.md)

> “Because what’s history?” he asked rhetorically when he was in his expansive dinnertime instructional mode. “History is everything that happens everywhere. Even here in Newark. Even here on Summit Avenue. Even what happens in his house to an ordinary man—that’ll be history too someday.”

p. 180 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-roth/the-plot-against-america/because-whats-history.md)