"Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthralment to those in power."

Leo Tolstoi - Demanding the Impossible: a History of Anarchism by Peter Marshall (fontana press 1992) p374

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"Never argue with an idiot, they'll just bring you
down to their level and beat you with experience." (c)TB