Shadi > Shadi's Quotes

“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
― Albert Einstein

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
― Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics and Politics

“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious”
― Oscar Wilde

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou