Government-quotations Quote by Matshona Dhliwayo

“When civilians kill, it is called murder. When governments kill, it is called pragmatism.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“What makes a human being want to kill another who has done him no personal harm? Patriotism.”

— Theresa Breslin

[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism.

— Howard Zinn

“Better to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.”

— samuel johnson

“We should not allow patriotism to do violence to our lucidity, our reason, our intelligence.”

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“patriotism involves serving your own country.”

— Timothy Snyder

“In war-time the word patriotism means suppression of truth.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

— Bertrand Russell

“Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and…

— Graham Greene

“True patriotism is doing something for your country.”

— Bill Maher

“At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.”

— Jules Renard