#otis

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#vicious #virtue

My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism. ↗

— John Woo

#concerned #family #films #friendship #honor

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it. ↗

— Malcom X

#does #face #face reality #matter #patriotism

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#despotism #fetters #freedom #our #possessions

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#ascetic #deceives #deplorable #egotism #giving

Mastery passes often for egotism. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#mastery #often #passes

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#been #conformity #creative #despotism #differences

If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#decide #egotistical #mayor #people #people say

If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#direction #need #over #partisanship #patriotism

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. ↗

— Graham Greene

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