“One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.”
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
