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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial re

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. – Bertrand Russell

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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. – Bertrand Russell

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To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. – Bertrand Russell

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. – George Bernard Shaw

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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. – Charles de Gaulle

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The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise. – Herbert Croly

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I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision. – Dominique de Villepin

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