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> [“To understand your country you must love it. To love it you must, in a sense, accept it. To accept it as it is, however, is to betray it. To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-mangabeira-unger/to-understand-your-country-you-must-love-it-to-love-it-you-must-in-a/)

[Roberto Mangabeira Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-mangabeira-unger/)

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## More by Roberto Mangabeira Unger

> [“Our dominant idea about the mind fail to recognise the conflict between the two sides of the mind — the mind as machine and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-mangabeira-unger/our-dominant-idea-about-the-mind-fail-to-recognise-the-conflict/)

[Roberto Mangabeira Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-mangabeira-unger/)

> [“The combination of our mortality with our groundlessness imparts to human life its pressing and enigmatic character. We struggle to in our brief time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-mangabeira-unger/the-combination-of-our-mortality-with-our-groundlessness-imparts-to/)

[Roberto Mangabeira Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-mangabeira-unger/)

> [“If the self remains in its citadel, anxious to control and heavily defended, it declines in the sources of vitality. To lay the citadel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-mangabeira-unger/if-the-self-remains-in-its-citadel-anxious-to-control-and-heavily/)

[Roberto Mangabeira Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-mangabeira-unger/)

> [“He faces the burdens of belittlement a third time as he grows older, and settles into an existence that he has embraced, or that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-mangabeira-unger/he-faces-the-burdens-of-belittlement-a-third-time-as-he-grows-older/)

[Roberto Mangabeira Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-mangabeira-unger/)

> [“To understand your country you must love it. To love it you must, in a sense, accept it. To accept it as it is,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-mangabeira-unger/to-understand-your-country-you-must-love-it-to-love-it-you-must-in-a/)

[Roberto Mangabeira Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-mangabeira-unger/)

> [ “They \[Americans\] believe that the terrors of vast problems yield to the effects of many small solutions. Use little things to break big things,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-mangabeira-unger/they-americans-believe-that-the-terrors-of-vast-problems-yield-to-the/)

[Roberto Mangabeira Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-mangabeira-unger/)

> [“In such a view, time is not emergent. It is, in fact, the only aspect of reality that cannot emerge from a more fundamental…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-mangabeira-unger/in-such-a-view-time-is-not-emergent-it-is-in-fact-the-only-aspect-of/)

[Roberto Mangabeira Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-mangabeira-unger/)

> [“So we must run back and forth between these two suns in our firmament—the presentiment of death and awareness of life—and avoid being transfixed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-mangabeira-unger/so-we-must-run-back-and-forth-between-these-two-suns-in-our-firmament/)

[Roberto Mangabeira Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-mangabeira-unger/)

> [“The power worship of the Promethean amounts to a travesty of the enhancement of life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-mangabeira-unger/the-power-worship-of-the-promethean-amounts-to-a-travesty-of-the/)

[Roberto Mangabeira Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-mangabeira-unger/)

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