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Allegiance Quote by Pat Barker

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“A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.”

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I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I reacted against…

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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…

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There is a congratulatory culture in the Gulf. From birth onwards, there is a culture of giving people trophies as markers of achievement for…

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In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.

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Let's do more than say the 'Pledge of Allegiance.' Let us live it!

Emanuel Cleaver

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All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we…

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government,…

Theodore Roosevelt

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Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.

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I think it is right for Canadians to be asked to show their faces when they're taking the oath. On revocation of citizenship, we…

Chris Alexander

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“Protesting can be as simple as not participating in the Pledge of Allegiance.”

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Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as…

Michel Foucault

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The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.

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