Humbug Quote by Mark Twain Download Open image “Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.” — Mark Twain ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humbug Patriotism Robbery Talking
[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a… — Ernest Belfort Bax Copy Share Image
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
The word patriotism, or its equivalents and derivations, is upon everyone's lips at the present time. It is a magic word which is thought… — Ernest Belfort Bax Copy Share Image
A great deal of what passes by the name of patriotism in these days consists of the merest bigotry and narrow-mindedness; exhibiting itself in… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Patriotism is a feeling that grows as you become conscious of your surroundings. — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
How can you see something that isn't there?" yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. "Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album. — Carole King Copy Share Image
It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image