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Australia Day #2  

1981Neil 42M
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1/25/2017 7:10 pm
Australia Day #2

"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy... Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it." (George Bernard Shaw)

"Patriotism has become a mere national self-assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties." (H.G. Welles)

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! ...I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism." (Albert Einstein)

"Nationalism is our form of , is our idolatry, is our insanity. "Patriotism" is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by "patriotism" I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one's own nation, which is the concern with the nation's spiritual as much as with its material welfare - never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship." (Erich Fromm)

"Patriotism is the vice of nations." (Oscar Wilde)

"Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others." (Emma Goldman)

"I hate patriotism. I cant stand it, man - makes me fuckin' sick. Its a round world last time I checked." (Bill Hicks)

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