P Quotes
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“Patriotism originally is a vibe of faithfulness inborn in every human on this Earth due to their affection and loyalty toward their nation.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.”
Source: The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold
“Patriotism ruins history.”
“Patriotism,” said Theodore Roosevelt, “means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. … Every man,” said President Roosevelt, “who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.”
“Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not be true to the best interests and general welfare of his country.”
“Patriotism taken too far is fanaticism. No matter who you are or where you're from.'
'These filthy foreigners made us look bad.'
'Foreigners aren't your enemy, son. I'm the son of immigrants.'
'W-what?'
'When I was a kid it was my father's people, the Irish, who were looked down on. Called filthy foreigners. Discriminated against. Is that the xenophobic America you want? All religions, all nationalities, we all want the same thing. To see our children grow strong. To provide safety for our families. To live in quiet times. Peace, son. Isn't that why we became soldiers? To fight for a peaceful world?”
Source: Captain America, Vol. 3: Loose Nuke
“Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion.”
“Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of foreign birth. It has specifically blamed homosexuals, feminists and the American Civil Liberties Union. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Whom are we calling terrorists here?”
“Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.”
“Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.”
Source: Outspoken essays
“Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.”
“Patriotism which has the quality of intoxication is a danger not only to its native land but to the world, and "My country never wrong" is an even more dangerous maxim than "My country, right or wrong."”
“Patriotism will forever transcend politics, for politics falls prey to the interest of the party and is therefore blind to the vision of a nation.”
“Patriotism without criticism has no head; criticism without patriotism has no heart.”
“Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life is killed out; it becomes a dead word in the vocabulary-a blank counter, to be moved to any part of the game; and that flag which, streaming from the mast-head of our ship of state, striped with martyr-blood, and glistening with the stars of lofty promise, should always indicate our worldwide mission, and the glorious destinies that we carry forward, is bandied about in every selfish skirmish, and held up as the symbol of every political privateer.”
“Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.”
Source: Good-Bye to All That: With a Prologue and an Epilogue
“PATRIOTISM, n. 1) The inability to distinguish between the government and one's 'country'; 2) A highly praiseworthy virtue characterized by the desire to dominate and kill; 3) A feeling of exultation experienced when contemplating heaps of charred 'enemy' corpses; 4) The first, last, and perennial refuge of scoundrels.”
Source: Provocations: Don't Call Them Libertarians, AA Lies, and Other Incitements
“Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.”
Source: War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
“Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a blind devotion; in the man in intelligent love. The patriot perceives the claim made upon his country by the circumstances and time of her growth and power, and how God is to be served by using those opportunities of helping mankind. Therefore his country's honor is dear to him as his own, and he would as soon lie and steal himself as assist or excuse his country in a crime.”
Source: On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891
“Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.”
Source: Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist
“Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.”
“Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.”
“Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.”
“Patriotisme memang sering seperti api lilin di dalam tong terang, tapi terkurung.”
Source: Catatan Pinggir 7
“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.”
Source: Has Man a Future?
“Patriots built Auschwitz. You start believing that “my country wrong or right” shit, and it always ends up at the same place: a pit filled with bones.”
Source: The Woman in the Woods
“Patriots don't go to Russia. They don't seek asylum in Cuba. They don't seek asylum in Venezuela. They fight their cause here. Edward Snowden is a coward. He is a traitor. And he has betrayed his country. And if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so.”
“Patriots don't let their nation default.”
“Patriots is quite simple; there's seven continents in the world, if you had to sacrifice one continent and make it six would you do it?”
“Patriots must have the ideas and the tools so that we can recruit, sow the seeds of doubt, and take the fight to the enemy's safe place.”
“Patriots quarterback Tom Brady says he thinks it would be great if Donald Trump was president. Which is really weird because I thought Brady didn't like things that are filled with too much air.”
“Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“Patrol was not difficult work. They stopped any niggers they saw and demanded their passes. They stopped niggers they knew to be free, for their amusement but also to remind the Africans of the forces arrayed against them, whether they were owned by a white man or not.”
Source: The Underground Railroad
“Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.”
“Patronage always means loss of freedom.”
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London
“Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.”
Source: The papers: The chief of staff
“Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science, Garber argues that twenty-first-century universities must rigorously devote their attention to Big Art. Provocative, witty, and layered, Patronizing the Arts cogently demonstrates the advantages for both art and the university in this new and radical alliance.”
“Patru ani de razboi dau mai multa cunostinta despre problemele vietii, decat treizeci de ani de universitate.”
Source: Magi blestemati
“Patru sînt felurile generale ale părăsirii: una din iconomie, cum este la Domnul, ca prin păruta părăsire cei părăsiți să se mîntuiască. Alta spre dovedire, cum este la Iov și Iosif, ca să se arate unul stâlp al bărbăției, altul al neprihănirii. A treia spre povățuite duhovnicească, cum este la Apostolul, ca, smerindu-se în cugetare, să păstreze covârșirea harului. În sfârșit, a patraeste lepădarea, ca la iudei, ca, pedepsiți fiind, să fie încovoiați spre pocăință. Dar toate felurile sînt mântuitoare și pline de bunătatea și de iubirea de oameni a lui Dumnezeu”.
Sfîntul Maxim Mărturisitorul
Capete despre dragoste, ed Humanitas, 2017,
p.102”
Source: Filocalia - Volumul 2
“Patrzę na pana jak na jakąś doskonałość. I dlatego pana nienawidzę.”
Source: The Camp of the Saints
“Pats cīnies, palīdz, domā, spried un sver,
Pats esi kungs, pats laimei – durvis ver!”
“Patsy Cline belongs shoulder-to-shoulder with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.”
“Patsy Cline? Larger than life! She taught me emotion: raw, sincere, unashamed.”
“Patsy had asked him if he had had adventures in Paris and he had truthfully answered no. It was a fact that he had done nothing; his father thought he had had a devil of a time and was afraid he had contracted a venereal disease, and he hadn't even had a woman; only one thing had happened to him, it was rather curious when you came to think of it, and he didn't just then quite know what to do about it: the bottom had fallen out of his world.”
“Pattern recognition and association make up the core of our thought. These activities involve millions of operations carried out in parallel, outside the field of our consciousness. If AI appeared to hit a brick wall after a few quick victories, it did so owing to its inability to emulate these processes.”
“Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.”
“Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.”
“Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.”
Source: Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, The