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«War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
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War
| Keywords:
decayed, degraded, patriotic, state of war, ugliest
«We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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citizens, cooperate, cooperated, cooperating, IRS, jail, jailed, patriotic
«The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.»
Author: Douglas MacArthur
(General)
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blindly, demanded, disasters, exorbitant, fervor, furnishing, furnishings, gobble, Gobbles, in charge, patriotic, rallies, rally, rallying, sums
«You must not kill your neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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foreign, genuinely, hate, heroism, impulses, kill, murderous, must not, nation, neighbor, neighboring, patriotic, perhaps, propaganda, transfer, transferred, transferring, transfers
«Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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animate, animates, clay, Graves, No self, patriotic, patriotism, self respect, soil, sympathy
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