Logo
Quote by Greil Marcus
Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of sufferin

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them. – Greil Marcus

Other quotes by Greil Marcus

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes. – Greil Marcus

Category:
Failure
Author
Greil Marcus
Read Quote

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits. – Greil Marcus

Category:
Struggle
Author
Greil Marcus
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Patriotism
category

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. – Howard Zinn

Category:
Patriotism

Who saves his country violates no law. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Category:
Patriotism

The love of ones country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? – Pablo Casals

Category:
Patriotism

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them! – Albert Einstein

Category:
Patriotism

Random Quotes

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age. – Mick Jagger

Category:
Age

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. Im sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or Id have to accept that it happened. – Jason Ritter

Category:
Anger

Ideals are the worlds masters. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

Category:
Idealism

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. – Joseph Addison

Category:
Knowledge