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"Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing."
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"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
"Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith."
"The real propaganda is what-if we are genuinely a living member of a nation-we tell ourselves because we have hope, hope being a symbol of a nation's instinct of self-preservation. To remain blind to the unjustness of the cause of the individual "Germany," to recognise at every moment the justness of the cause of the individual "France," the surest way was not for a German to be without judgement, or for a Frenchman to possess it, it was, both for the one and for the other, to be possessed of patriotism."
"How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?"
"What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends."
"The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.--The Fruit Hunters."
"I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world."
"The English nation is never so great as in adversity."
"We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world."
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
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"One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer."
"But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event."
"But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up."
"You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really."
"I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way."
"I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life."
"It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight."
"Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish."
"I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour to other people. I cannot bear it that people are mean to people who can't help what they are."
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