Logo
Quote by Todd Gitlin
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe shoul

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life. – Todd Gitlin

Other quotes by Todd Gitlin

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics. – Todd Gitlin

Category:
Politics
Author
Todd Gitlin
Read Quote

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some dont. – Todd Gitlin

Category:
Patriotism
Author
Todd Gitlin
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Patriotism
category

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

Category:
Patriotism

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world. – Socrates

Category:
Patriotism

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Patriotism

Lets give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation. – Richard Dreyfuss

Category:
Patriotism

Random Quotes

If you become a teacher, by your pupils youll be taught. – Oscar Hammerstein II

Category:
teacher

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient. – Thomas Aquinas

Category:
Nature

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Truth

Make a gift of your life and lift all mankind by being kind, considerate, forgiving, and compassionate at all times, in all places, and under all conditions, with everyone as well as yourself. This is the greatest gift anyone can give. – David R. Hawkins

Category:
Generosity