“Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.” WayCountryPastLanguageForgetTraditionCommandSymbols Author:Slobodan Milosević
“Israel's international position is very badly damaged. A country which started off as a symbol of recovery of a people who were greatly persecuted now looks like a country that is persecuting people. And that's very bad.” PeopleLooksCountryPositionInternationalIsraelRecoverySymbolsPersecuted Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle: and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. In poetic minds and in popular enthusiasm this feeling becomes closely associated with the soil and the symbols of the country. But the secret sanctification of the soil and the symbol is the idea which they represent, and this idea the patriot worships through the name and the symbol, as a lover kisses with rapture the glove of his mistress and wears a lock of her hair upon his heart.” MenMindHeartIdeasCountryFeelingsCertainNamesSecretPrinciplesLandHairLoversMountainKissingWorshipAreasRiversWoodsLoyaltyEnthusiasmSymbolsSoilPatriotismPoeticLocksPatriotMistressGlovesRaptureSanctification Book:On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891 Source: On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891
“I think Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol that causes a great deal of division and reminds us of a really hurtful legacy and past... I think there are some Southerners, black and white, who feel as though the rest of the country looks down on the South as uneducated and backward. And for some people, that was a symbol of defiance against that.” PeopleThinkingFeelsLooksCountryPastCausesBlackWhiteDealsBattleSouthSymbolsLegacyDivisionFlagsBlack And WhiteDefianceHurtfulUneducatedConfederateSoutherner Author:Russell D. Moore