“It isn’t necessary to be anti-national to be deeply suspicious of all nationalism, to be anti-nationalism. Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocides of the twentieth century.
Flags are bits of coloured cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.When independent, thinking people begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgement and blindly yoke their art to the service of the nation, it’s time for all of us to sit up and worry. ” - Arundhati Roy
Quote by Francesc Ferrer: the Spanish anarchist and modern heretic who was executed for heresy. Pope Pius X sent a gold-handled sword engraved with his felicitations to the military prosecutor who had obtained Ferrer’s death.
Quote by: Hamilton Nolan, Gawker. Regardless of the context of the article, this is so true, how “patriotism” is used to shut up media, skeptics and pacifists alike.