“Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!”
— Albert Einstein
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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
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“My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.”
— John Woo
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“Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.”
— Greil Marcus
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“Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.”
— Michael Ignatieff
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“Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.”
— Calvin Coolidge
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“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
— Diogenes
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“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
— Howard Zinn
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“Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism – no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.”
— Evan Bayh
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“When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!”
— David Starr Jordan
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“It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.”
— Ho Chi Minh
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“1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.”
— Rosa DeLauro
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