mac_hine
07-04-2014, 06:03 PM
“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
“Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of HUMAN dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.” Leo Toystoy
“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.” Bertrand Russell, attributed
“To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, ‘Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.’” Leo Tolstoy
“Patriotism is a religion, the egg from which wars are hatched.” Guy de Maupassant
“A patriot sets himself apart in his own country under his own flag, sneers at other nations and keeps an army of uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people’s countries and keep them from grabbing slices of his. In the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for ‘the universal brotherhood of man’ - with his mouth.” Mark Twain, The Lowest Animal
“Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult.” Ernest. B. Bax
“Blind patriotism has been kept intact by rewriting history to provide people with moral consolation and a psychological basis for denial.” William H. Boyer
"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." ~George Orwell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWejuCskH1k
“Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds & then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.” ~Arundhati Roy (My Favorite)
“Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of HUMAN dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.” Leo Toystoy
“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.” Bertrand Russell, attributed
“To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, ‘Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.’” Leo Tolstoy
“Patriotism is a religion, the egg from which wars are hatched.” Guy de Maupassant
“A patriot sets himself apart in his own country under his own flag, sneers at other nations and keeps an army of uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people’s countries and keep them from grabbing slices of his. In the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for ‘the universal brotherhood of man’ - with his mouth.” Mark Twain, The Lowest Animal
“Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult.” Ernest. B. Bax
“Blind patriotism has been kept intact by rewriting history to provide people with moral consolation and a psychological basis for denial.” William H. Boyer
"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." ~George Orwell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWejuCskH1k
“Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds & then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.” ~Arundhati Roy (My Favorite)