The Joys of Patriotism Or, How to Justify Being a Rat

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson.
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The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. George Orwell.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. Oscar Wilde.
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!" -  Albert Einstein  
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it." George Bernard Shaw  
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Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit." Emma Goldman  
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it." George Bernard Shaw  
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"In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell." - H. L. Mencken  
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiiocy. George Bernard Shaw.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots." Barbara Ehrenre
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. Edward Abbey
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"More men, woman and children have probably died under the banner of Nationalism and Patriotism than any other unnatural cause." Gary Amirault
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. Edward Abbey
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“Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.” Wendy Kaminer
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When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience." Leo Tolstoy, Patriotism and Government
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Sometimes those who appear to be unpatriotic are the true patriots. Gary Amirault
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph: Haile Selassie
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I love my country, it's the government I'm afraid of. Gene Veith.
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