Flags Quotes

“People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

“In what happiness of festivity was the flag on the motor fluttering?”
― Suman Pokhrel

“It falls to the lot of even the most glorious flags to be thrown in the mud. Glory, what men call glory, is often thick with mud.”
― Curzio Malaparte, The Skin

“(Where do they get these giant flags? What happens to them when there's no campaign? Where do they go? Where do you even store flags that size? Or is there maybe just one, which McCain2000's advance team has to take down afterward and hurtle with to the next THM to get it put up before McCain and the cameras arrive? Do Gore and the Shrub and all the other candidates each have their own giant flag?)”
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

“In this city, the victors had delusions of grandeur. It was visual. Across the street from the hotel stood City Hall, sporting an oversized Serb flag that hung from the roof to the ground, a hundred feet tall, fifty feet wide, three horizontal stripes of blue, white and red, so large that only a strong breeze could make it flap. The flag, hanging over a building where, fifty years earlier, Kurt Waldheim worked as a lieutenant in the Wehrmacht, was meant as a projection of Serb nationalism, as though size were all that mattered, rather than content. I had never thought of flags as weapons, but in Bosnia, as in the rest of Europe, they were becoming the deadliest weapons of all.

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― Peter Maass, Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War

“Some critics argue about the exact number of millions of people murdered in the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part) under Stalin, Mao, Hitler, and other socialists. I remember the retort of the historian Dr. Rex Curry: a million murdered here, a million murdered there, pretty soon you are talking a lot of people.”
― Lin Xun, God Hates Flags! Buy This Book or Go to Hell.: With an Introduction by God

“The Pledge of Allegiance (1892) was the origin of the raised arm salute adopted later by the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis). The Pledge was written by Francis Bellamy, cousin to Edward Bellamy (the author), and both were self-proclaimed national socialists in the United States. The original Pledge began with a military salute that was then extended out toward the flag. In practice, the second gesture was performed palm down. The gesture was not an ancient Roman salute. All of these are discoveries of the symbologist Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets").”
― John Thomas Nall, GOD SAVE THE SOUTH: And a Treasure Chest of Forbidden Information

“The morning of the funeral an honor guard from Albuquerque fired the salute; two big flags covered the coffins completely, and it looked as if the people from the village had gathered only to bury the flags.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“Being Danish, all you have is your supple grip and your light touch. There are plenty of places in the world where the guest who extends a weaponless hand is the most welcome. A man from a small and weak country is as good as stateless. Just wave your Danish flag. They won't see a white cross against a red background as a crusading banner; they'll just see it as a white cloth. So wrap yourself in its innocence, lao-yeh.”
― Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned

“Fewer American flags [in Brooklyn] than in Florida but more than in San Francisco.”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

“We take a word, such as freedom, and dress it up to mean the ability to bear firearms, display flags, collect rainwater or grow clean food, but absolute freedom is not a relative construct. It is not there one minute or outlawed the next. It can never be seized or given. It is ever-lasting and omnipresent.”
― Anita B. Sulser PhD, We Are One

“Six guns rattling rattling boom boom boom
Words and flags folding, folding, folded
The knell tolls ding ding ding ding ....”
― Richard L. Ratliff

“The Liberian flag was fashioned after the American flag by seven women: Susannah Lewis, Matilda Newport, Rachel Johnson, Mary Hunter, Mrs. J. B. Russwurm, Collinette Teage Ellis, and Sarah Draper. On August 24, 1847, the flag was flown for the first time and that date officially became Flag Day in Liberia. The flag is referred to as the “Lone Star.”
The resemblance to the American flag reflects the origins of Liberia, being the resettlement country for freed slaves, coming primarily from America. A previous Liberian flag had a white cross in place of the present single star.”
― Captain Hank Bracker, The History of Liberia & West Africa

“There is no flag on Earth that is more beautiful than the flag with only the picture of the Earth on it!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Journalist Tony Horwitz describes its laser show as an unfortunate mix of Coca-Cola, the Beatles, the Atlanta Braves, and Elvis sining "Dixie," followed by the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Television ads end with the inclusive slogan, "Stone Mountain: A Different Day for Everyone." Eventually the desire for everyone's dollar may accomplish what the physical elements cannot: eradicating Stone Mountain as a Confederate-KKK Shrine.”
― James Loewen

“A flag is not just a piece of fabric; rather, it represents the fabric of that country's society and culture”
― Toddly Publications, North America Flags Activity Book: 23 Countries Flags to Color, 8 Fun Puzzles and Learn Capital, Area along with National Symbols like Fruit, Animal & Bird

“Flag is not just a piece of fabric rather it represents fabric of that country's society and culture”
― Toddly Publications, North America Flags Activity Book: 23 Countries Flags to Color, 8 Fun Puzzles and Learn Capital, Area along with National Symbols like Fruit, Animal & Bird

“This is what is feared:
that flags do not nourish the blood,
that history is not glorious or truthful.”
― Dan Vera, Speaking Wiri Wiri

“Neurovision (Sonnet)

Mind is one big lie,
unless you examine everything.
Life is one big blind spot,
unless you question everything.

All prejudice comes with a flag,
all discrimination comes with a badge.
Nothing civilized in waving the flag,
real honor is to outgrow archaic trash.

If you must wave, wave the flag of those
who are stripped of their life and dignity.
Wave the rainbow, wave the watermelon -
lift up those thrown in manufactured obscurity.

If left to tradition, every mind
is a septic tank of superstition.
But nourish it with heart and reason,
and mind is sanctuary of illumination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people for a purpose which is unattainable.”
― Howard Zinn, The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy