The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? —Pablo Casals More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Patriotism is a beautiful thing — to love your country, your land, and your people, and to have a deep emotional affinity. But it can be so easily corrupted to polarized thinking, to harming others and ourselves, if we don't realize what it is that is beautiful. It is beautiful because it is love. —Patricia Sun More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
U.S. out of North America! —Unknown More about this quote Tags: USA America Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When we're talking about war, we're really talking about peace. —George W. Bush More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all others. The inhabitants of the other spots reason in a like manner, of course. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Since this is an emergency, all robots will now have their patriotism circuits activated. —Commander Zapp Brannigan on Futurama More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the Deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoidal peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells or metal mines. —John T. Flynn More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. —Sophocles More about this quote Tags: wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Look at an infantryman's eyes, and you can tell how much war he has seen. —Bill Mauldin More about this quote Tags: war eyes hardening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A 1979 survey concluded that more Vietnam veterans had died by their own hand than in combat. —John Langone More about this quote Tags: war suicide soldiers Vietnam war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth. —Thomas Browne More about this quote Tags: wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You're immature. You've been unable to adjust to the idea of war." "Yes, sir." "You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown off any second." "I more than resent it, sir. I'm absolutely incensed." ". . . Misery depresses you. Ignorance depresses you. Persecution depresses you. Violence depresses you. . . . You know, it wouldn't surprise me if you're a manic depressive! —Joseph Heller More about this quote Tags: war ignorance maturity death misery violence surprise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. —Seneca More about this quote Tags: wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not at all the same people. —Katherine Anne Porter More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are not very many of these blasted and broken boys who think this war is a glorious adventure. Do not talk to them about bugging out, or national honor, or courage. It does not take any courage at all for a congressman, or a senator, or a president to wrap himself in the flag . . . because it is not our blood that is being shed. But we are responsible for those young men and their lives and their hopes. —Senator George McGovern More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email