khaoz wrote:
Raptor wrote:
ArrantPariah wrote:
on Patriotism:
Quote:
?Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.?
- George Bernard Shaw
?Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.?
- Bertrand Russell
?Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.?
- Oscar Wilde
?Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him??
- Blaise Pascal
?Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, and conscience, and a slavish enthralment to those in power.?
- Leo Tolstoy
You forgot to say that patriots are bullies but I'm sure one of your kind will come along and add that.
Your's truly,
The Patriot.
I have no idea what "his kind" is, but I personally see no relationship between patriotism and bullying. I am more concerned with verbal bullying than physical bullying anyway. My example of bullying is someone like O'Rielly, who raises his voice and jabs his finger into his guests face in an attempt to bully them into using his words to answer his questions instead of permitting them to speak for themselves.
? You're responding to a post from over two (2) years ago.
? You're replying to someone (me) that you vowed not to speak to again since that person, according to you, has no "integrity".
? If O'Reilly bothers you that much why do you watch him?
? It might interest you to know that the person I was replying to has been banned, I believe, for trolling.
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"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
- Thomas Jefferson