Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part III: Strange Bedfellows, Philip the Sap
“Diplomacy, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.”
— Ambrose Bierce, book The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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Source: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 3, "The Cabin" (p. 20)
“Besides, for poets it wasn’t lying, it was art.”
Karen Lord (1968) Barbadian novelist and sociologist of religion
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“What’s Wrong with Being Proud?”
Pieces of Eight (1982)
Context: Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country’s virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, “the greatest,” but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.
“Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Has Man a Future? (1962), p. 78
1960s