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«Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.»
«Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism»
Author: John Haynes Holmes
| About:
Politicians,
Religion
| Keywords:
patriotism, Politicians, priests
«Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.»
Author: Charles de Gaulle
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
nationalism, of your own, other than, patriotism
«The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
armies, beaten, clergy, flattery, heights, patriotism, popularity, temporal, temporal power, treachery
«There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
cloister, cloistered, confounded, confounding, confounds, fair-mindedness, fairmindedness, go together, narrowness, partisan, partisans, patriotism, serviceable, trimmed, trimming, trimmings, trims
«Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.»
«Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
killed, patriotism, reasons, trivial, willingness
«Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
internationalism, patriotism
«Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
Born, conviction, countries, country, patriotism, superior
«Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
patriotism, vicious, virtue
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