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William Ralph Inge on patriotism
Author: William Ralph Inge“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.” -William Ralph Inge
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Eugene V. Debs on patriotism
Author: Eugene V. Debs“I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.” -Eugene V. Debs
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Leo Tolstoy on patriotism
Author: Leo Tolstoy“The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.” -Leo Tolstoy
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Bill Vaughan on patriotism
Author: Bill Vaughan“A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.” -Bill Vaughan
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Charles de Gaulle on patriotism
Author: Charles de Gaulle“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.” -Charles de Gaulle
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Howard Zinn on patriotism
Author: Howard Zinn“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.” -Howard Zinn
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Samuel Johnson on patriotism
Author: Samuel Johnson“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” -Samuel Johnson
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George Orwell on patriotism
Author: George Orwell“Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.” -George Orwell
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Bertrand Russell on patriotism
Author: Bertrand Russell“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.” -Bertrand Russell
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Douglas MacArthur on patriotism
Author: Douglas MacArthur“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.” -Douglas MacArthur
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Calvin Coolidge on patriotism
Author: Calvin Coolidge“Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.” -Calvin Coolidge
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George McGovern on patriotism
Author: George McGovern“The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one’s country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.” -George McGovern
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Blaise Pascal on patriotism
Author: Blaise Pascal“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?” -Blaise Pascal
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Dale Carnegie on patriotism
Author: Dale Carnegie“Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.” -Dale Carnegie
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Aldous Huxley on patriotism
Author: Aldous Huxley“One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.” -Aldous Huxley
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Clarence Darrow on patriotism
Author: Clarence Darrow“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.” -Clarence Darrow
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Voltaire on patriotism
Author: Voltaire“It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.” -Voltaire
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Malcolm X on patriotism
Author: Malcolm X“You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.” -Malcolm X
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Oscar Wilde on patriotism
Author: Oscar Wilde“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.” -Oscar Wilde
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John F. Kennedy on patriotism
Author: John F. Kennedy“I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.” -John F. Kennedy
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Ronald Reagan on patriotism
Author: Ronald Reagan“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” -Ronald Reagan
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Tyrone Power on patience
Author: Tyrone Power“I’ve done an awful lot of stuff that’s a monument to public patience.” -Tyrone Power
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Bowie Kuhn on patience
Author: Bowie Kuhn“So it’s been a slow process and it’s taken some patience. That’s why patients are called patients I think – patience is required.” -Bowie Kuhn