"Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?"

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Source : Wallace Shawn (2009). “Essays”, p.28, Haymarket Books

Wallace Shawn

#Country Quotes #Love You Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.”
“No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.”

Source : "In Rare, Blunt Speech, Saudi King Criticizes Syria Vetoes" by Rick Gladstone, www.nytimes.com. February 10, 2012.
“And I, what is my crime I cannot tell, Unless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.”
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.”
“Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.”
“It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores.”
“If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 01, 2017
“I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.”

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