"We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior."
― Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Patriotism
― Friedrich Durrenmatt
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- "Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands."
- "Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality."
- "The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint."
More In Patriotism
- "Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."― Mark Twain
- "I’m an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel."― George Galloway
- "I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism."― Bob Riley