Quote by Bertrand Russell
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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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. – Bertrand Russell

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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. – Bertrand Russell

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True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our countrys good. – George Barrington

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I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. – Eugene V. Debs

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The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for Americas past success are still here to be tapped. – Michael Mandelbaum

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It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. – Bahaullah

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People who dont know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. – Henrik Ibsen

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Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood. – Anthony Collins

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