Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."

[My Uncle Sosthenes]

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

[Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment.