#patriotism

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#nationalism #patriotism #virtue

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, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create. Theorem, anti-theorem, corollary, anti-corollary. Underline it twice. It’s all there in the numbers. Listen to your mother. Listen to me, Joshua. Look me in the eyes. I have something to tell you. ↗

— Colum McCann

#armies #children #lessons #let-the-great-world-spin #loss

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 zur Vereinheitlichung war kaum irgendwo stärker als in Deutschland, eben weil es sich erst spät zu einer Nation herausgebildet hat, und das Deutsche niemals ein so natürlicher oder unumstrittener Bezugspunkt war wie England für die Engländer oder Frankreich für die Franzosen. ↗

— Navid Kermani

#nationality #patriotism #religion

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#because #dollar #follow #interest #lead

But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#beyond #die #goes #i #patriotism

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. ↗

— Diogenes

#am #citizen #greek #i #i am

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#behavior #civilized #consider #contradicts #desirable

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#exemplified #patriotism #through

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#against #america #anti-semitic #based #best

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#comes #first #hate #love #nationalism