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“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 quotes (English Novelist and Critic, 1894-1963)
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“Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!”
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
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“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.”
Guy de Maupassant quotes (French naturalist writer of short stories and novels, 1850-1893)
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“Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914)
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“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”
Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)
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“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)
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“Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.”
iilana Senator John Kerry quotes (American Senator, b.1943)
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“Patriotism is the religion of hell”
James Branch Cabell quotes ((1879-1958))
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“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”
George Bernard Shaw quotes (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)
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“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.”
George Bernard Shaw quotes (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)
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