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«(Nationalism is) a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands»
Author: Howard Zinn
(Author, Historian, Political activist, Professor)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
fatherland, Fatherlands, motherland, Motherlands, nationalism, veneration
«Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.»
«Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
arbitrary, estate, patriotism, real estate, veneration
«Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
above all, clear-thinking, fairness, fundamentally, hold in, honesty, opposed, veneration
«Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.»
«The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Authority
| Keywords:
accidental, coeval, confounded, Laws of nature, prescriptions, procured, the laws of nature, veneration, with reason
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