Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first…

Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

— Arundhati Roy

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When…

— Arundhati Roy

People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds…

— Arundhati Roy

NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they…

— Arundhati Roy

The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.

— Bill Shuster

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease…

— Edward Bellamy

I try not to think retrospectively. It's important, as an artist, to look forward, always. I do try to take work that involves some…

— Cillian Murphy

He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found…

— Peter S. Beagle

If the Jews had issues with the Polish people then why during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, did the Jewish underground hang two flags from…

— Andrzej Duda

The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be…

— Mark Twain

It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being…

— Bill Ayers

We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of…

— George C. Marshall

They're counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They're counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over…

— Bill Moyers

Women covering their heads is traditional, but now we're seeing more and more women covering themselves from head to toe. This is said to…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

— Bret Harte