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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
    4085 likes

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    Howard Zinn
    “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: nationalism, patriotism, war
    1828 likes

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    John Lennon
    “Imagine there's no countries
    It isn't hard to do
    Nothing to kill or die for
    And no religion too
    Imagine all the people
    Living life in peace

    You may say that I'm a dreamer
    But I'm not the only one
    I hope someday you'll join us
    And the world will be as one”
    ― John Lennon, Imagine
    tags: aspirations, dreams, idealism, nationalism, peace, religion, song-lyrics, unity, war
    677 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: anti-patriotism, identity, nation, nationalism, politics
    785 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: americanism, duty, nationalism
    519 likes

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    H.G. Wells
    “Our true nationality is mankind.”
    ― H.G. Wells
    tags: nationalism, racism
    523 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: aggression, nationalism, patriotism
    303 likes

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    François Fénelon
    “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.”
    ― Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon
    tags: humanity, humans, nationalism, patriotism, war
    254 likes

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    Patrick O'Brian
    “But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”
    ― Patrick O'Brian, Master & Commander
    tags: jingoism, maturin, nationalism, nationality, patriotism, stephen-maturin
    223 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: fascism, irresponsibility, nationalism
    292 likes

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    Banksy
    “People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one”
    ― Banksy, Wall and Piece
    tags: chauvinism, flags, nationalism, patriotism
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    Wilhelm Reich
    “Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.”
    ― Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!
    tags: class, history, love, memory, nationalism, race, religion, repression
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    Criss Jami
    “The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: arrogance, arrogant, belief, bias, clan, country, estimate, estimated, estimation, family, funny, funny-but-true, humor, illogical, inferior, inferiority, irrational, logic, mystery, nation, nationalism, patriot, patriotic, patriotism, people, percent, percentage, pride, prideful, sarcasm, sarcastic, stat, statistic, statistics, stats, superior, superiority, true
    49 likes

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    Richard Dawkins
    “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: bible, christianity, god, organized-religion, religion, yahweh
    1909 likes



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