quotes about Jingoism

last updated: November 28, 2023

I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audience. It felt like bringing an alien component to the film would help take the American jingoism out of it.
-- Peter Berg

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My dear creature, I have done with all debate. But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either MY COUNTRY, RIGHT OR WRONG, which is infamous, or MY COUNTRY IS ALWAYS RIGHT, which is imbecile.
-- Patrick O'Brian

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“The only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting it.”
“The right place for the League of Nations is not Geneva or the Hague, Ascher Ginsberg has dreamed of a Temple on Mount Zion where the representatives of all nations should dedicate a Temple of Eternal Peace. Only when all peoples of the earth shall go to THIS temple as pilgrims is eternal peace to become a fact.”
“Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.”
“It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?”
“Whenever you're looking at new ways to get in shape, first you have to decide what you want. Do you want a more muscular look, or do you want to slim down and appear more toned and ripped? I adapt my training and diet with each role I do, depending on the image I want to convey”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I always want to give the victim a voice.”
“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.”
“The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.”

Source : Teresa De Lauretis (2008). “Freud's Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film”, p.3, Springer
“More proof that trusting the Feds to protect our information is like hiring Homer Simpson to guard the donuts.”

Source : "Things That Make You Cringe". InfoWorld, Volume 28, No. 51, December 18, 2006.
“Ex-cons always say, "You never know what makes the wheels go round until you've done time in the joint." This is even more true of psychiatric hospitals. It is a perfect mass hypostatization of society, the organization of the Social Lie.”

Source : "An Autobiographical Novel". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Chapter: "Pysch Ward", www.bopsecrets.org. 1991.