Captured And Tortured Beyond Belief

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

Beyond The Dreams Of Avarice

The Triumph Of Hope Over Experience

Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions

Oi Oi Oi

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