Flags Quotes - Page 21

• We said we'd fly the flag without him and carry on. I didn't give him a kiss because I still hadn't accepted what was happening. I was hoping that some miracle was going to happen. Of course, it didn't. I wish I had kissed him now.

  Robin Gibb

  Kissing, Giving, Miracle

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't belong to any side. What's more, I think flags are nothing but painted rags that represent rancid emotions. Just seeing someone wrapped up in one of them, spewing out hymns, badges and speeches, gives me the runs. I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Running, Thinking, Sheep

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• If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles.

  Howard Zinn

  Loyalty, Country, Government

  Howard Zinn (1990). “Declarations of Independence: Cross-examining American Ideology”, Perennial

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• I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

  Scott Ritter

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Doe

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• Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

  H. G. Wells

  Cheer, Self, Patriotism

  "The Future in America: A Search After Realities". Book by H. G. Wells, 1906.

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• Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man - with his mouth.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Patriotic, Men

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.121, Univ of California Press

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• If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.

  Jerrold Nadler

  Democracy, Needs, Protection

  "House Passes Flag-Burning Amendment". www.foxnews.com. June 23, 2005.

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• Worried about an IRS audit? Avoid what's called a red flag. That's something the IRS always looks for. For example, say you have some money left in your bank account after paying taxes. That's a red flag

  Jay Leno

  Red Flags, Taxes Funny, Example

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• If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.

  Bette Midler

  Running, Passionate, Action

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January, 2001.

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• Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.

  Tertullian

  Rivals, Violence, Christ

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• People have learned by bitter experience that the "European fraternal union of peoples" cannot be achieved by mere phrases and pious wishes, but only by profound revolutions and bloody struggles; they have learned that the question is not that of a fraternal union of all European peoples under a single republican flag, but of an alliance of the revolutionary peoples against the counter-revolutionary peoples, an alliance which comes into being not on paper, but only on the battlefield.

  Friedrich Engels

  Struggle, Communication, People

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”, Intl Pub

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• The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them. Your face approaching ever so friendly is the white flag they ignore. There is no truce with the furies. A mirror's temperature is always zero. It is ice in the veins. It's camera is an x-ray. It is a chalice held out to you in silent communion, where gaspingly you partake of a shifting identity never your own.

  R. S. Thomas

  Zero, Fear, Home

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• One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence of the old engineer, as he sketched a triangle on the flags of our yard, and taught me how to measure it, is very vivid. The drab knee-breeches and grey worsted stockings, the deep waistcoat, with its pockets well furnished with snuff-of which ample quantities continually disappeared within the finely chiselled nostril-and the dark coat with its rounded outline and somewhat quakerish cut, are all clearly present to my memory.

  William Crawford Williamson

  Memories, Father, Science

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• The reason why we love America so much is America is the only place you can actually come in and wave your flag.

  Wyclef Jean

  America, Reason Why, Wave

  "Singer-songwriter-activist Wyclef Jean". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. September 25, 2012.

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• Medal of Honor belongs to every man and woman who gives us the freedom today to be able to hold our flag and hold our heads up high and say we have the greatest country in the world. And that goes with the men and women in the past, and the men and women of today, and the men and women of the future. As long as Mike Thornton lives, that medal will always stand for all them. Not for me. Not for what I've done, but for what I was trained to do and what they have been trained to do to give us our freedom today.

  Michael E. Thornton

  Country, Past, Men

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• I thought of New York as a free city, like one of those prewar nests of intrigue and licentiousness where exiles and lamsters and refugees found shelter in a tangle of improbable juxtapositions. I had never gotten around to changing my nationality from the one assigned me at birth, but I would have declared myself a citizen of New York City had such a stateless state existed, its flag a solid black.

  Luc Sante

  New York, Cities, Black

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What I'm finding out now is that people care more about a flag than about their fellow man. That's killing me.

  Brandon Marshall

  Men, People, Fellow Man

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• On the other hand, there are plenty of red flags that link developmental disabilities to things like lead and mercury and pesticides and air pollution and certain kinds of unhealthy foods, and that's what's begging for a comprehensive and definitive study. We should have a long-term prospectus study that looks at all, you know, exposures, medications, life habits, etc., pollution, and traces people over a period of many years, starting with when - starting with their parents, from when they are healthy. This is how we learned what causes heart disease.

  Jill Stein

  Heart, Hands, Should Have

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

  Smedley Butler

  War, Believe, Fighting

  Major General Smedley Butler's speech, 1933.

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• Together, we will have one great American future. Our potential is unlimited. We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag.

  Donald Trump

  People, Together, Great American

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• People are starting to think about let's let a lot of people come in from Syria, even though we know nothing about them, who they are, et cetera, et cetera. But they do have cellphones. And they do have ISIS flags on some of those cellphones. And you say, what are we doing? I don't know if you know but a lot of the cellphones had the ISIS flag on them. And we let them into our country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Thinking, Isis

  "The 21 best exchanges in The Washington Post's Trump interviews" by Nick Gass and Nolan D. McCaskill, www.politico.com. August 30, 2016.

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• Interestingly, if you write preparation out of history, leadership and preparation, the building of confidence among people who are exploited, you've actually methodologically written out the Communists because, when an uprising takes place, you don't necessarily see red flags everywhere.

  Vijay Prashad

  Writing, Uprising, Red Flags

  "'Exiles From the Future': An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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• I've never been a flag waver, but I can lead by example.

  Mike Ness

  Example, I Can

  "Interview with Mike Ness of Social Distortion". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I optioned the magazine article. That was end of 2003. It was a time when the war was incredibly popular here and everyone was driving around with flags on their car, if you remember not too long ago.

  Paul Haggis

  War, Long Ago, Car

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• You had bands like D.O.A., or Black Flag, and a whole network opened up to trailblazer a counter culture movement. I'm more interested in the less sensational type of stories.

  Ian MacKaye

  Counter Culture, Black, Stories

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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