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American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis. ↗

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In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time. ↗

— Tom Hooper

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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. ↗

— Horace

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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. ↗

— David Hume

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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. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

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Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

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There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. ↗