"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind."
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"Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic"
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"Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language."
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"You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society."
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"Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized."
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"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."
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"True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it."
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"The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own."
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"Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism."
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"A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril."
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"The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded."
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"What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?"
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"As to those in the World Trade Center...Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. ...If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it."
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"No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own."
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"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."
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"Patriotism ruins history."
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"The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history."
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"Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it."
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"Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it."
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"I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of will, heroism on command, senseless violence, and all of the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism."
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