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I've a whole bunch of these. A funny guy oddly keeps sending them to me.
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for
their country:" Bertrand Russell, attributed
"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to
die in." George McGovern
"The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of
bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest
bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery."
Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil
"Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill." : R.
Aldington
"Patriotism is the belief your country is superior to all other
countries because you were born in it." : George Bernard Shaw
"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by
geography." : George Santayana
"I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally
controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are
manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense
the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be
described as democracy either." Edward Zehr
"One of the great attractions to patriotism, it fulfills our worst
wishes. In the person of a nation we are able, vicariously, to bully
and cheat while feeling we're profoundly virtuous." : Aldous Huxley
"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and a
common fear of its neighbors." : W. R. Inge
"Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a
stone and as irrational as a headless hen." -Ambrose Bierce
"Patriotism is a religion, the egg from which wars are hatched." : Guy
de Maupassant
"Patriotism is a menace to liberty.": Emma Goldman
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