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patriotism
«No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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«Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.»
Author: Henry Steele Commager
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authority, criticism, equate, equated, our policy, patriotism, policies, subversive, this policy
«Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.»
Author: Rebecca Harding Davis
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«Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
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dedication, frenzied, outburst, outbursts, patriotism, steady, tranquil
«I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.»
«Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.»
Author: Emma Goldman
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arrogance, artificially, conceit, conceits, dignity, falsehoods, increases, maintained, network, patriotism, robs, self respect, superstition, The Network, with conceit
«Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
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arbitrary, estate, patriotism, real estate, veneration
«Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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fever, fierce, headless, hen, hens, irrational, patriotism, pitiless, The Grave
«Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ''Patriotism'' is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by ''patriotism'' I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one's own nation, which is the concern with the nation's spiritual as much as with its material welfare /never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
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«Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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idiocy, patriotism, pernicious, psychopathic