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By AbuMubarak, May 26, 2009 at 4:10 pm Link to this comment

“One of the great attractions to patriotism, it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of a nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat while feeling we’re profoundly virtuous.” : Aldous Huxley

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“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and a common fear of its neighbors.” : W. R. Inge

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“Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone and as irrational as a headless hen.” -Ambrose Bierce

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“Patriotism is a religion, the egg from which wars are hatched.” : Guy de Maupassant

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“Patriotism is a menace to liberty.”: Emma Goldman

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By NYCartist, May 26, 2009 at 8:29 am Link to this comment

Oink unless you have man and woman.

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By ChaxC, May 26, 2009 at 7:55 am Link to this comment
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The most hard core patriots were the Germans between the years of 1934 and 1945.
See what patriotism gets you?

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By AbuMubarak, May 25, 2009 at 4:51 pm Link to this comment

How true.  You can wear it with anything, defeat any opponent, win any argument, wiggle out of any debate.

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