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Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious. - Oscar Wilde

Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious. – Oscar Wilde

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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. – Oscar Wilde

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great
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Oscar Wilde
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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest. – Oscar Wilde

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Saint, Saints
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You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done. – Oscar Wilde

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Theres intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism. – Michael Ignatieff

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It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because theyre not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans. – Eric Hobsbawm

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Patriotism

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. – Howard Zinn

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Patriotism

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable… those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over. – Bernadine Dohrn

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