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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

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The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

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Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. ↗

— George Orwell

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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly. ↗

— Will Thomas

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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Democracy passes into despotism. ↗

— Plato

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Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. ↗

— Chaim Potok

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I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be. ↗

— Lou Reed

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