"The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war."

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Source : Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

Sydney J. Harris

#Country Quotes #Attitude Quotes #War Quotes

“I think that always myself is my worst opponent. I always playing against myself first and then to the other one. So I'm playing against two guys during the match...It's like mentally I don't know what is gonna happen in the next ten minutes. Maybe I get depressed in ten minutes. I don't know myself too much...Yeah, I was working with a psychology, and I still.”
“When I see everyone doing the same thing, I want to do the opposite.”

Source : "Mike Ness of Social Distortion". Interview with Matt Schild, music.avclub.com. January 18, 2011.
“I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts.”
“For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.”
“I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.”
“Each worm to his taste; some prefer to eat nettles.”

Source : Junichiro Tanizaki (2011). “Some Prefer Nettles”, p.4, Tuttle Publishing
“I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.”
“We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.”

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