patriotism

America

4th of July

piss

hamburger

steak

WWII

trivia

cabbage

sauerkraut

is a devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people.

By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. George Orwell

is a kind of religion... it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Patriotism is a kind of religion... it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

is a relativistic concept. Osama bin laden, who is a saudi, feels himself to be a patriot because the u.S. Has forces in saudi arabia, which is sacred because it is the land of the prophet mohammed.

Osama bin Laden, who is a Saudi, feels himself to be a patriot because the U.S. has forces in Saudi Arabia, which is sacred because it is the land of the prophet Mohammed. Edward Said

is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

is a splendid thing, but why should love stop at the border.

a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border'

is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

[Patriotism] is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive 'owners' who each in turn, as 'patriots' with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of 'robbers' who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn. Mark Twain

is actually the opposite of conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same. George Orwell

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patriotism