#patriot

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Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. Both words are normally used in so vague a way that any definition is liable to be challenged, but one must draw a distinction between them, since two different and even opposing ideas are involved. By ‘patriotism’ I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. The abiding purpose of every nationalist is to secure more power and more prestige, not for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen to sink his own individuality.


George Orwell


#patriotism #life

[Large countries'] patriotism is different: they are buoyed by their glory, their importance, their universal mission. The Czechs loved their country not because it was glorious but because it was unknown; not because it was big but because it was small and in constant danger. Their patriotism was an enormous compassion for their country.


Milan Kundera


#patriotism #love

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious


Oscar Wilde


#nationalism #patriotism #virtue

Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? The Jieitai must be the soul of Japan. … The nation has no spiritual foundation. That is why you don’t agree with me. You will just be American mercenaries. There you are in your tiny world. You do nothing for Japan. … I salute the Emperor. Long live the emperor!


Yukio Mishima


#money #national-spirit #nihilism #patriotism #spirituality

The last time I heard an orthodox Marxist statement that was music to my ears was from a member of the Rwanda Patriotic Front, during the mass slaughter in the country. 'The terms Hutu and Tutsi,' he said severely, 'are merely ideological constructs, describing different relationships to the means and mode of production.' But of course!


Christopher Hitchens


#ideology #marxism #rwanda #rwandan-genocide #rwandan-patriotic-front

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.


Herbert Hoover


#opportunity #patriotism #united-states #usa #independence

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.


Thomas E. Mann


#approval #became #measure #national #national unity

Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.


Charles Edward Montague


#clean #cut #different #different times #ends

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.


Alexander Pope


#destroy #knave #make #makes #patriot

In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of people think, on false pretenses, and definitely post the Patriot Act, there are a lot of these questions about what can we do to our citizens in order to prevent the next attack.


Gideon Raff


#act #after #america #attack #bin