#patriotism

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws? ↗

— Bill Maher

#better #country #critique #else #flaws

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. ↗

— George McGovern

#acceptance #blind #call #country #deep

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

— Lyn Nofziger

#blood #from time to time #liberty #needs #patriots

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

#been #bit #claiming #flag #his

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. ↗

— Jane Addams

#affection #cannot #conception #embody #hope

And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? is that true or is it just a consolation ? a shifting of responsibility? and if it is true , how much can she absorb and still remain Egypt ? ↗

— Ahdaf Soueif

#patriotism #love

How does one hate a country, or love one?... I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is the love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#love

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born. ↗

— François Fénelon

#humans #nationalism #patriotism #war #men

Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words! ↗

— Nathan Hale

#patriotism #inspirational

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#anarchist #chomsky #communism-patriotism-inspiration #lenin #leninism