Degrees Quote by Philip Caputo Download Open image “In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.” — Philip Caputo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Degree Patriotism Degrees Directly Proportional Distance Fronts Patriotism Patriotism Directly Peace War Wartime Wartime Degree
“One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good or evil… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Patriotism is a feeling that grows as you become conscious of your surroundings. — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
While patriotism is often lauded as an unquestionable value, the status of patriotism is a problem for many thoughtful people. It is particularly troublesome… — Stephen Nathanson Copy Share Image
Being a correspondent at the Vietnam war for me was about exposing myself to danger but it wasn't completely self-serving. I felt that there… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places. — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy. — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
“I really believe that when we start talking ourselves back, we'll have more to offer the world." he [Woodenkinfe] said. "I don't want a… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
“Directly overhead the Milky Way was as distinct as a highway across the sky. The constellations shown brilliantly, except the north, where they were… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary. — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
“Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
It’s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase without a… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
I was a full time student either at Stony Brook or NYU getting my masters degree. After I graduated with my masters I was… — Chris Algieri Copy Share Image
Life comes from death. To the degree that I can live in the death of Jesus - to that degree I can channel God's… — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
As hard as I try to live with some degree of faith in my life, I just can't believe that the full moon can… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess. The farthest… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
What are you for? It may be, to a degree, consoling that white brothers and sisters did not vote for [Donald] Trump, and do… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
My mother taught me three things, respect, knowledge-search for knowledge, it's an eternal journey. That's like my hair-cut, the line, 360 degrees, find knowledge… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image