Thorstein Veblen Quote

The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies - and our sp...

A true patriot never abandons his country at the hour of need.

I love my country, not my government.

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.

When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily of a personal choice, there lies a problem of distorted priorities.

Arab nationalism in its traditional form was the way in which secular Arab Christians like Edward had found and kept a place for themselves, while simultaneously avoiding the charge of being too 'West...

I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since ideology had anything to do with it. Not without cunning, Fat Man and Little Boy gradually mutated...

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either , which is infamous, or , which is imbecile.

Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the city because they know the city; but it wil...