Just passing on stuff I came across. Assorted quotes:

[howard112211]

"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
—Albert Einstein (attributed)

"Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all others. The inhabitants of the other spots reason like manner, of course . . ."
—Emma Goldman, Patriotism

"Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts."
—Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil

"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority."
—Arthur Schopenhauer, Aphorisms

"The militarists say that 'fighting is instinctive' and that 'you cannot change the real character of men by any intellectual process.' If this is true, the case is still not hopeless, as some think, for there are animals and men without this 'fighting instinct,' that do not kill each other; there is a possibility that those with the 'fighting instinct' will succeed in exterminating each other, and permit those without to breed a better race."
—Charles T. Sprading, Freedom and Its Fundamentals

"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem."
—Howard Zinn

"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace."
—Calgacus

[ellenfl]

1. my favorite . . .

"Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile." Billy Sunday, Evangelist

ellen fl

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, howard.:thumbsup:

[pnorman]

3. I really like that Zinn quote! (Einstein too!)

Here's another by Zinn (by memory): "The cries of the poor aren't always just. But if you don't listen to them, you'll never understand the meaning of justice!"

Another (also by memory): "Don't be on the side of the oppressor!"