Wednesday, 26 January 2022

Not Rocket Science

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfils our worst wishes. 
In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. 
Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. 
— Aldous Huxley

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. 
— George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. 
— Bertrand Russell

Heroism on command, 
senseless violence, 
and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism
 – how passionately I hate them! 
— Albert Einstein

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. 
— Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. 
— Samuel Johnson

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. 
— Richard Aldington

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