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Quote by Friedrich Durrenmatt
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilize

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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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 Ehrenreich

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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. – George Jean Nathan

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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. – William Shenstone

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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. – Denis Diderot

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There isnt any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know. – Ernest Hemingway

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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. – Irving Babbitt

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