#otis

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills 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

#able #attractions #bully #cheat #feeling

Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they? ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#black-and-white #films #frank #frank sinatra #guys

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#i #i do #patriotism #sense

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#composition #country #ethnic #feeling #granted

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#america #called #could #feeling #intense

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#about #ancestry #common #delusion #hatred

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#zaphod-beeblebrox #ego

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism. ↗

— John Avlon

#confuse #partisanship #patriotism #sign

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism? ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#despotism #destruction #including #legal #liberty

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#campaign #despotism #during #indispensable #long