As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.
Criss JamiTag: day love society god nationalism patriotism death patriotic tragedy vanity memory selfishness memories pride culture falsehood commemoration individual honest universal routine popular-culture pop-culture holiday popular patriot lovelessness pop memorial insensitivity bandwagon commemorate fabrication insincere memorial-day tithe
The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.
Criss JamiTag: humor family people belief nationalism patriotism patriotic funny arrogance logic sarcasm statistics mystery illogical pride true country superiority superior inferiority nation bias funny-but-true patriot clan irrational sarcastic percent arrogant inferior estimate estimated estimation percentage prideful stat statistic stats
We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.
J. KrishnamurtiTag: nationalism krishnamurti
Why must I cling to the customs and practices of a particular country forever, just because I happened to be born there? What does it matter if its distinctiveness is lost? Need we be so attached to it? What's the harm if everyone on earth shares the same thoughts and feelings, if they stand under a single banner of laws and regulations? What if we can't be recognized as Indians any more? Where's the harm in that? No one can object if we declare ourselves to be citizens of the world. Is that any less glorious?
Sarat Chandra ChattopadhyayTag: nationalism
In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.
C.J. SansomTag: nationalism xenophobia
Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
Douglas MacArthurTag: nationalism war macarthur philippines
Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself – (belching corruption and farting discontent!)
Faraaz KaziTag: politics nationalism politicians
Sometimes you look at yourself in the mirror, any mirror, and you wonder why that nose looks as it does, or those eyes--what is behind them, what depths can they reach. Your flesh, your skin, your lips--you know that that face which you behold is not yours alone but is already something which belongs to those who love it, to your family and all those who esteem you. But a person is more than a face or a bundle of nerves and a spigot of blood; a person is more than talking and feeling and being sensitive to the changes in the weather, to the opinions of people. A person is part of a clan, a race. And knowing this, you wonder where you came from and who preceded you; you wonder if you are strong, as you know those who lived before you were strong, and then you realize that there is a durable thread which ties you to a past you did not create but which created you. Then you know that you have to be sure about who you are and if you are not sure or if you do not know, you have to go back, trace those who hold the secret to your past. The search may not be fruitful; from this moment of awareness, there is nothing more frustrating than the belief that you have been meaningless. A man who knows himself can live with his imperfections; he knows instinctively that he is part of a wave that started from great, unnavigable expanses.
F. Sionil JoséTag: nationalism individualism racial-pride
My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human.
Santosh KalwarTag: politics humanity nationalism humanism third-world humanity-and-society first-world being-human second-world
Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and could not comprehend that such an assessment—which would yield a monstrous toll if accurately conducted on a global scale—might perhaps be a proper task in the United States. At the same level of integrity, disciplined Soviet intellectuals are horrified over real or alleged American crimes, but perceive their own only as benevolent intent gone awry, or errors of an earlier day, now overcome; the comparison is inexact and unfair, since Soviet intellectuals can plead fear as an excuse for their services to state violence.
Noam ChomskyTag: fear nationalism united-states hypocrisy violence intellectuals soviet-union consensus war-crimes international-law state-terrorism american-imperialism ronald-reagan reagan-doctrine state-sponsored-terrorism
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