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Patriotism has served at different times as widely different ends as a razor which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.

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Charles Edward Montague
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Category: Patriotism

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. American Idol transcends age gender ethnicity everything.
  • 2. In my youth I stressed freedom and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
  • 3. As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well as it turned out I never wrote a great novel sadly and I never converted to Catholicism happily but I did do one thing he did. That is in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.

2 Amazing

  • 1. When I look into the crowd I see young and old black and white – it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.
  • 2. If it's an amazing role I'll do anything.
  • 3. There is nothing like the way people feel after they've seen 'The Intouchables.' They feel amazing. The word of mouth on this film is incredible. It's intelligent-feeling good. You're not insulted by the low-browness or stupidity of some of the humor. It's so smart and terrific.

3 Anger

  • 1. I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have and it's cathartic as well because I create art out of anger something positive out of something negative.
  • 2. The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.
  • 3. My anger with the US was not at first that they had used that weapon – although that anger came later.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening May 15 1876 at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
  • 2. I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw the worse things got for me musically.
  • 3. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons and marry the right person.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I see architecture not as Gropius did as a moral venture as truth but as invention in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
  • 2. I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s and into my 30s I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
  • 3. The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
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