Flags Quotes - Page 32

• Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Crazy, War, Party

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• The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.

  Norman Mailer

  Mean, Democracy, Facts

  Norman Mailer (2003). “Why are We at War?”, Random House Incorporated

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• I used to have horrible cars that would always end up broken down on the highway. When I tried to flag someone down, nobody stopped. But if I pushed my own car, other drivers would get out and push with me. If you want help, help yourself - people like to see that.

  Chris Rock

  People, Broken, Car

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Running, Dying, Three

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• If protesting against having a nuclear bomb implanted in my brain is anti-Hindu and anti-national, then I secede. I hereby declare myself an independent, mobile republic. I am a citizen of the earth. I own no territory. I have no flag. My policies are simple. I'm willing to sign any nuclear non-proliferation treaty or nuclear test ban treaty that's going. Immigrants are welcome. You can help me design our flag.

  Arundhati Roy

  Independent, Simple, Proliferation Treaty

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• If we set the precedent of limiting the First Amendment, in order to protect the sensibilities of those who are offended by flag burning, what will we say the next time someone is offended by some other minority view, or by some other person's exercise of the freedom the Constitution is supposed to protect?

  Edward Kennedy

  Exercise, Views, Order

  Constituent letter, 1997.

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• I try not to think retrospectively. It's important, as an artist, to look forward, always. I do try to take work that involves some challenge. If you approach a piece of work and you're going, "Yeah, yeah, I can do that," then that's kind of a red flag.

  Cillian Murphy

  Artist, Thinking, Red Flags

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history.

  Michael Parenti

  America, Honest, Devotion

  Michael Parenti (2004). “Superpatriotism”, p.9, City Lights Books

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• If you're living a yielded life, and if you have the preaching and teaching gift, and you're yielding that to God on a continual basis, that's one of the signs that you're in the right place doing the right thing for the right reasons. If you're doing something in the kingdom, and you rarely feel that, that's a red flag. Something needs to be looked at. Are you using the right gift? Are you using it in the right way? For the right reasons? At the right time? In the right context? If I didn't feel it consistently, that would be quite troubling to me.

  Bill Hybels

  Teaching, Red Flags, Kingdoms

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• History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield.

  Mario Van Peebles

  Book, Land, Car

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• If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn't it more unpatriotic to desecrate the country itself-to pollute, despoil and ravage the air, land and sea.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Air, Sea

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• We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again.

  Thomas Sowell

  Red Flags, Warning, Might

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• Out-of-whack emotions are always a good beginning point for identifying beliefs that aren't really true, an easy red flag for our inquiry. Exaggerated emotions of anxiety or discouragement invite us to trace them back to the thoughts that are creating them.

  Virginia H. Pearce

  Red Flags, Creating, Anxiety

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• We deserve a president of the United States who will write laws for all Americans, not for campaign contributors. And I intend to be a president for all Americans who takes back the flag of our country because it doesn't belong to any party, doesn't belong to any president.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Party, Writing

  "Quotes From Dem Debate". www.foxnews.com. September 9, 2003.

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• The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying 'we' when referring to the United States and, even the 'shock and awe' of the initial stages, it was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable.

  Katie Couric

  Littles, United States, Culture

  "The Nefarious 'We'" by Jonah Goldberg, www.freerepublic.com. September 25, 2007.

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• Liberals want to burn the flag, but progressives just want to microwave it?

  Stephen Colbert

  Want, Microwaves

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• Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribed for our motto: 'Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever,' and exclaim, 'Christ first, our country next!'

  Andrew Johnson

  Country, Forever, Liberty

  Andrew Johnson (1862). “Expulsion of Mr. Bright: Speech of Hon. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, in the Senate of the United States, Friday, January 31, 1862”, p.16

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• It's not like someday my kid's gonna be standing over my grave, and somebody's gonna hang her a folded flag and say, "You know what? This is 'cause he did 24 hours straight on Twitter." But it's just one of those little personal victories, like, "I wonder if I can do this." And I did it. A stupid goal, but I accomplished it. Life's all about...for me, at least...having very stupid achievable goals. That way, you always feel like a winner.

  Kevin Smith

  Stupid, Kids, Goal

  "A chat with Kevin Smith, Kevin Smith interview, The Best of the SModcast, Reaper". Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. October 7, 2009.

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• There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country. If he be in a foreign land, the flag is companionship and country itself, with all its endearment...The very colors have a language which was recognized by our fathers; white is for purity; red, for valor; blue, for justice. And altogether, bunting, stripes, stars, and colors, blazing in the sky, make the flag of our country, to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands.

  Charles Sumner

  Country, Stars, Father

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• I am sorry, but if you believe the newest death of OBL, you're stupid. Just think to yourself - they paraded Saddam's dead sons around to prove they were dead - why do you suppose they hastily buried this version of OBL at sea? This lying, murderous Empire can only exist with your brainwashed consent - just put your flags away and THINK!

  Cindy Sheehan

  Sorry, Lying, Stupid

  Facebook post by Cindy Sheehan, www.facebook.com. May 2, 2011.

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• When you fight, you don't fight for abstract values like the flag, or the nation, or democracy. You fight for your buddy. You fight to keep him alive, and he fights to keep you alive, and you go on that way, day after day, battle after battle. And when one of your buddies dies, something inside you dies as well. But you go on. You fight, so that his death isn't meaningless, his sacrifice isn't for nothing.

  Richard Marcinko

  Death, Sacrifice, Fighting

  Richard Marcinko (2010). “Red Cell”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.

  Smedley Butler

  Oil, Pumps, Globalization

  Smedley D. Butler (2003). “War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier”, Feral House

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• Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.

  Charlie LeDuff

  Race, Flames, Cities

  Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.33, Penguin

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• Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?

  Ron Paul

  Land, Usa, America

  "Ron Paul: Crimea secedes. So what?". www.usatoday.com. March 17, 2014.

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• People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds and smother thought, and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury their willing dead.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Winning, Government

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”, p.242, Penguin Books India

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