"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
― Bertrand Russell
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Patriotism
― Bertrand Russell
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- "Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution."
- "A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation."
- "Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know."
More In Patriotism
- "Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"― Blaise Pascal
- "The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny."― David Hume
- "Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill."― Richard Aldington