>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:12:58 -0500 >To: [email protected] >From: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Patriotism > >Kaustabh asked what is so bad about patriotism. Gautom cited Kamala Kanta >Bhattacharjya's poetry. Satyen posted the Nalini Bala Devi's poem ( >incidentally I do like that a lot). > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Today I am extremely cautious about this CLOAK which is easily donned, to >clad a variety of qualities, from the noble to the evil. Recently I came >across a number of quotes and kept them around, which will express what I >am attempting to better than I ever could. Allow me to share: > > >* The love of humanity---Mohandas Gandhi > >* A lively sense of collective responsibility--Richard Aldington > >* The first resort of a scoundrel--Ambrose Bierce > >* The last refuge of a scoundrel--Samuel Johnson > >* Looking out for yourself by looking out for your country--Calvin Coolidge > >* Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to moral lunacy.---William Inge > >* Hope is the mainspring of patriotism---David Lloyd George > >* That pernicious sentiment, " Our country, right or wrong"--James R. Lowell > >* The egg from which all wars are hatched -- Guy de Maupassant > >* A variety of hallucination---Henry L. Mencken > >* Often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles---George >Jean Nathan > >* Old men's lies--Ezra Pound > >* Public duty parodied--James E. Rogers > >* The willingness to be killed for trivial reasons--Bertrand A. Russel > >* To serve one's country by deeds, and....to serve her by words.---Sallust > >* A soul controlled by geography----George Santayana > >* The passion of fools and most foolish of passions--Arthur Schopenhauer > >* Our country, right or wrong. When right to be kept right, when wrong to >be put right.-- Carl Schurz > >* Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries, >because you were born in it.---George Bernard Shaw > >* Nothing more than a feeling of welfare, and the dread of seeing it >disturbed--Stanislaus > >* Not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady >dedication of a lifetime--- Adlai Stevenson > >* To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own---Lionel Strachey > >* A sense of partisan solidarity in respect of prestige.---Thorstein Veblen > >* Our country, our whole country and nothing but our country.---Daniel Webster > >* A mere national self-assertion, a sentimentality of flag cheering with no >constructive duties.---H.G. Wells > >* The virtue of the vicious---Oscar Wilde > >* The finest flower of Western Civilization as well as the refuge of the >scoundrel.--Leonard Woolf > >* Geographic loyalty---Anon > >* Self interest multiplied by population--Anon > >* Unconditional loyalty one's country--Anon > >* A convenient stick to wave to stifle critical discourse--Yours truly :) > >cm _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
