There are so many things to exploit man, but religion and patriotism are at the top of the list.

Spare the rod and spoil the Memorial Day rotisserie.

Si la Patria es pequeña, uno grande la sueña

He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword … unless he’s a general.

Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

New Rule: America must stop bragging it’s the greatest country on earth, and start acting like it. I know this is uncomfortable for the “faith over facts” crowd, but the greatness of a country can,...

If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of war. If we had to stand over the mangled corpses of schoolchildren killed...

She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still,...

ASU, ASU.

Today everybody is talking about the fact that we live in one world; because of globalization, we are all part of the same planet. They talk that way, but do they mean it? We should...

A niechaj narodowie wżdy postronni znają,Iż Polacy nie gęsi, iż swój język mają.

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

Society can give its young men almost any job and they’ll figure how to do it. They’ll suffer for it and die for it and watch their friends die for it, but in the end,...

Tanah air adalah tempat penindasan diperangi, tempat perang diubah menjadi kedamaian, kira-kira begitu. Tempat kawan manusia diangkat menjadi manusiawi, oleh siapa pun yang ikhlas berkorban. Dan patriotisme masa kini adalah solidaritas dengan yang lemah, yang...

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori.

We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy...

Be proud of your people when you don’t have to be ashamed of any it’s social class

You will generally observe that, of all Americans, your foreign-born citizens are the most patriotic – especially toward the Fourth of July.

They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, ‘Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbolic patriotism.’ And...

Now, your Honor, I have spoken about the [Civil] war. I believed in it. I don’t know whether I was crazy or not. Sometimes I think perhaps I was. I approved of it; I joined...

Arnold had never given much thought to whether or not he loved America—but now it seemed pretty obvious to him that he didn’t. Not in the way Nathan Hale had loved America. Or even in...

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

I was still a newlywed and certainly wasn’t to the point where I felt comfortable yelling, “I’m going to shit my pants any second!”But the sweating had started, which was followed by the tears. “I’m...

Avarice is patriotic!

Participation in the collective life of the polis both restrains the extraordinary individual and enlarges the ordinary individual, allowing him to participate in the extraordinary. An individual can achieve participatory excellence via the accomplishments of...

Giving yourself is the ultimate revolution.

I haven’t come to you only to take , I haven’t come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as great as yours but in anther tongue , I bring you black eyes...

As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who...

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers… Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer...

When a war breaks out, everyone is on the wrong side.

I don’t think about politics,” Rabbit says. “That’s one of my Goddam precious American rights, not to think about politics.

Culture makes lies plausible through exposure to time. It makes prejudice seem like physics intergenerationally. It is therefore the most dangerous opponent of philosophy, because it feels the most credible to the average person.

What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace – a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we’re in, comes up with ways of dealing with...

The nearer a soul is to God, the more it deserves our esteem; the closer the ties that bit it to us, the more sensible is our love for it, and the more whole-hearted should...

How I define patriotism, a knife, a riffle and some hand-gernades.

True patriotism is doing something for your country.

At the sight of the flag he tasted tears in his throat. In the Stars and Stripes all the passions of his life coalesced to produce the ache with which he loved the United States...

Even if you succeed in study and business, if your nation collapses, then what good is it for?

flag” in camouflage, though you couldn’t see by looking at it. (I hide behind my patriotism, and I hide my patriotism among red, white, and blue foliage.)

If we are considering the history of our own country, we write at length of the periods when our ancestors were prosperous and victorious, but we pass quickly over their shortcomings or their defeats. Our...

Anders als die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika haben sich die meisten europäischen Nationalstaaten auf der Grundlage von Homogenisierungen entwickelt; historisch liegt ihnen das Ideal einer Einheit von Blut, Kultur, Sprache und Religion zugrunde. Dieser Drang...

The only difference between Patriotism and Brand loyalty is that the latter doesn’t kill you.

The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude...

Patriotisme bukan seperti yang diindoktrinasikan orang-orang kolot zaman agraris itu. Aku tetap cinta Tanah Air, tetapi tidak dalam arti birokrat. Cinta saya kepada Tanah Air dan bangsa kuungkapkan secara masa kini, zaman generasi pascanasionalisme. Jika...

When a man over forty tries to repent of the sins of England and to love her enemies, he is attempting something costly; for he was brought up to certain patriotic sentiments which cannot be...

Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph.

In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost . . . especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking backwards to...

You might think there is nothing more patriotic than dying for your country, but I think there is nothing more patriotic than living for your country.