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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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Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines. – Bertrand Russell

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Bertrand Russell
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Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earths surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so. – Bertrand Russell

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I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally. – Tom Hooper

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I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws? – Bill Maher

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

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Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. – Richard Aldington

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