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Don’t stop loving your country and culture.
In the 1990s, Clinton spoke up about the impossibility of loving your country and hating your government simultaneously.
Несколько лет назад один неоконсервативный журнал высказался в том смысле, что нельзя любить свою страну и одновременно ненавидеть ее правительство.
Thats when you start loving your country.
Вот, это те моменты, после которых начинаешь любить Родину.
Loving Your Country but Hating Your Government
In Russia, loving your country and your president is actively encouraged.
Mugdha Godse: Independence is loving your country.
Loving your country is a good thing.
There is nothing wrong with loving your country and wanting it to do well.
И нет ничего противоестественного в том, что мы любим свою страну и желаем ей добра.
Being a patriot means loving your country and fighting to make it the best that it can be.
Быть патриотом для меня значит любить свою страну такой, какая она есть и стараться сделать её лучше.
Take, for example, loving your country.
You get credit for loving your country.
Don’t stop loving your country and culture.
The same word is used in loving your country or a sporting team.
Оно также используется для обозначения любви к своей стране или спортивной команде.
Like actually loving your country.
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Mandeville, LA – Every year around this time the flag waving, bomb bomb bomb, kill kill kill army suits up in flag adorned baseball caps and t-shirts to continue the 71 year old gloat of the United State’s vaporization of the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. If you are in that number and already boiling with rage that another “liberal, America-hater” is about to unload another attack against patriotism, I suggest you continue in your propagandized bliss and go back to watching barely clothed female “contributors” on Fox News warning about the impending destruction of San Diego by the Iranian Luftwaffe, it gets worse for your case from here. Are we all good, now? Great, let’s continue but first, let me offer a few confessions:
Nothing written above or below disparages the loss of life of the American servicemen killed in the Pacific theater. Any attempt to claim it does is purely manufactured because that is not my intent and I pray not the result.
•I am a Roman Catholic, through the Grace of God I practice her dogma and teaching, emphasis on practice.
•I am not “anti-war” or a “pacifist”. I am anti UNJUST war as defined by the jus ad bellum teachings of Our Lord, clarified by St Augustine, St Martin of Tours and St Thomas Aquinas. You can learn much more about Just, Christian warfare here, here is an excerpt that clearly identifies what is NOT permissible:
With respect to these last two issues, the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches:
“The Church and human reason both assert the permanent validity of the moral law during an armed conflict. ‘The mere fact that war has regrettably broken out does not mean that everything becomes licit between warring parties.’”18 For example, “Noncombatants, wounded soldiers, and prisoners must be respected and treated humanely.”19 Moreover, the Catechism affirms the following teaching of Vatican Council II’s Gaudium et Spes: “Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast areas with their inhabitants is a crime against God and man, which merits firm and unequivocal condemnation.”20
•I do not “hate” the military nor do I believe the military is not a requisite institution in civilized society.
My introduction to the topic of the hallowed status given the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki now completed, I will leave the remainder of the heavy lifting to previous scholarship including John LaForge’s The Enduring Myth of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
That most people in the United States still believe the “saved lives” rationale to be true is because of decades of this censorship and myth-making, begun by President Harry Truman, who said Aug. 6, 1945, “Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. … That was because we wished this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians.”
In fact, the city of 350,000 had practically no military value at all and the target was the city, not the base three kilometers away.
Taking President Truman at his word, the 140,000 civilians killed at Hiroshima are the minimum to be expected when exploding a small nuclear weapon on a “military base.” Today’s “small” Cruise missile warheads ¾ which are 12 times the power of Truman’s A-bomb ¾ could kill 1.68 million each.
Official censorship of what the two bombs did to people and the reasons for it has been so successful, that 25 years of debunking hasn’t managed to generally topple the official narrative.
In 1989, historian Gar Alperovitz reported, “American leaders knew well in advance that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not required to bring about Japan’s surrender;” and later, in his 847-page The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (Random House, 1995), “I think it can be proven that the bomb was not only unnecessary but known in advance not to be necessary.” The popular myth “didn’t just happen,” Alperovitz says, “it was created.”
When my friends are confronted with the above, it causes such a violent reaction that any response requires my disclaimers written above. Sample the usual invective from my alleged “friends” on Facebook:
This reaction is, as I explained on my Facebook page in response to a friend’s admission of confusion on the matter of pride or shame: Be humbly ashamed that we live under the aegis of a government capable of such an atrocity. The “millions of lives saved” is a sop believed by flag waving rubes who have personal stake in the sanctity (as heretical as that is) of ‘Muriach as Eden. Any discussion of Christian Just War will involve St Augustine and this essay is not deviant. In his de Libiro Arbitrio, Augustine erases the doubt of anyone who thinks our Unjust actions are excusable because “we’re Muricah” and we have some divine power to play God:
“For me the point to be considered first is whether an on – rushing enemy, or an assassin lying in wait may be killed with no wrong-headed desire [for the saving] of one’s life, or for liberty or for purity…. How can I think that they act with no inordinate desire who_fight for_that [i.e., some creaturely good], which they can lose without it? Therefore the law is not just which grants the power to a wayfarer to kill a highway robber, so that he may not be killed [by the robber]; or which grants to any one, man or woman. to slay an assailant attacking, if he can before he or she is harmed. The soldier also is commanded by law to slay the enemy, for which slaying, if he objects, he will pay the penalty by imperial order. Shall we then dare to say that these laws are unjust, or more, that they are not laws? For to me a law that is not just appears to be no law— For that he be slain who lays plans to take the life of another is less hard [to bear] than the death of him who is defending his own life [against the plotter]. And acting against the chaste life of a man in opposition to his own will is much more evidently wrong than the taking of the life of him who so does violence by that one against whom the violence is done. Then again the soldier in in slaying the enemy is the agent of the law [in war] wherefore he does his duty easily with no wrong aim or purpose… That law therefore, which for the protection of citizens orders foreign force to be repulsed by the same force, can be obeyed without a Wrong desire: and this same can be said of all officials who by right and by order are subject to any powers. But I see riot how these men [who defend themselves privately], while not held guilty by law, can be without fault: for the law does not force them to kill, but leaves it in their power. It is free therefore for them to kill no one for those things [life or possessions] which they can lose against their own will, which things therefore they ought not to love…. Wherefore again I do not blame the law which permits such aggressors to be slain: but by what reason I can defend those who slay them I do not find…. How indeed are they free of sin before Providence, who for those things which ought to be held of less worth are defiled by the killing of a man?”
Note that the Christian view of Just War is created out of love for the human person and soul. To prevent the uncharitable act of causing an unjust killing to stain the soul or to be the recipient of an unjust killing leaving a wife widowed and a children, fatherless. Thus, it can be said with confidence that jus ad bellum is of great benefit to both sides in any conflict BEFORE the shooting begins. LaForge Concludes:
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a five-star general and the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, said in his memoirs he believed “that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary.”
Adm. William Leahy, the wartime Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote in 1950, “It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material success in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender.”
Feller’s, Ike’s and Leahy’s opinions were conspicuously left out of or censored by the Smithsonian Institution’s 1995 display of the atomic B-29 bomber “Enola Gay.”
Admiral Leahy’s 1950 myth-busting and censor-busting about the Bomb could be an epitaph for the nuclear age: “I was not taught to make war in that fashion,” he said of Hiroshima’s incineration, “and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.”
Indeed.
Если вы любите свою страну, возьмите… Передайте капитану Келлу из Британского разведывательного Бюро.
You should love your country, be brought up in the spirit of patriotism,
at the same time, be open to the whole world.
а также быть открытыми для всего мира.
I would like to once more thank you all for
your
hospitality,
your
attention,
Я еще раз выражаю всем вам глубокую признательность за гостеприимство, внимание,
Dear Friends,
I would like to once more express my deep respect and love for your country and wish all of you to enjoy
your
evening.
Дорогие гости, в заключение еще раз выражаю свое почтение и любовь к вашей стране, желаю вам приятного вечера.
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Some people say that to love your country is old-fashioned… uncool, real melvin. |
Некоторые говорят, что любить свою страну — это уже старомодно, некруто, скучно. |
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To love religion, you must first love your country . |
Чтобы любить религию, вы должны прежде всего любить свою страну. |
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We also discovered that we share a deep love of this country and feel a responsibility to be politically active. |
Мы также обнаружили, что сильно любим свою страну и чувствуем, что должны быть политически активными. |
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My country has taught me the capacity for a human being to love is akin to godliness. |
Моя страна научила меня, что способность человека к любви сродни святости. |
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It is time for religious leaders and religious communities to take the lead in the spiritual and cultural shift that this country and the world so desperately needs — a shift toward love, toward justice, toward equality and toward dignity for all. |
Настало время для религиозных лидеров и общин взять курс в сторону духовных и культурных перемен, в которых так остро нуждается эта страна и весь мир — перемен в сторону любви, справедливости, равенства и достоинства для всех. |
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I’d love to bring the picture back up and just have us remember what it was like when a country came to a standstill. |
Но я бы хотела вернуться к тому кадру, чтобы напомнить, как это было, когда в стране наступил застой. |
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The city is very geometric and I love, I happen to love geometry, I love angles criss-crossing on the composition and different shapes, geometric shapes but the countryside , when I first started painting it was very difficult for me for that reason, because you don’t have the perspective of the streets and the angles of the roofs and so on to lead your eye through the painting. |
Город очень геометрический, и я люблю , так получилось, что я люблю геометрию, я люблю углы пересечения на композиции и различные формы, геометрические формы, но сельская местность, когда я впервые начала рисовать, то было очень трудно для меня по этой причине, потому что у вас нет перспективы улиц и углов крыш и так далее, чтобы вести глаз по картине. |
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And the countryside is so beautiful that I love painting there. |
А на природе так красиво, что я люблю рисовать там. |
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I love traveling and soccer, so on the walls in my room there are a lot of pictures and posters of footballers or different countries . |
Я люблю путешествия и футбол, поэтому в моей комнате большое количество картин и плакатов с футболистами и различными странами. |
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Having seen all the sights I understood that exactly in such cities we could develop the spirit of Homeland and bring up to love the country . |
Увидев все достопримечательности, я понял, что именно в таких городах, мы могли бы развивать дух Родины и воспитывать любовь к своей стране. |
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I can assure you that those conventional authorities in those countries will not love you. |
Я могу гарантировать тебе, что те традиционные власти в тех странах не будут любить тебя. |
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It wasn’t a question of courage or dedication or love of country . |
И дело было не в недостатке мужества, преданности или патриотизма. |
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I love Ossetians as a President and as an ordinary citizen of this country . |
Я люблю осетин как президент и как рядовой гражданин этой страны. |
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I received awards from that country , and now it has started to destroy everything I love, he said. |
«Я получал награды от той страны, а теперь она начала разрушать все, что я люблю », – сказал он. |
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As President Obama, love him or hate him, mostly correctly observed, America spends as much on its military as the next eight countries combined. Six of them our allies. |
Как в целом верно отмечал президент Обама — к нему можно относиться по — разному — Америка тратит на военные нужды столько же, сколько следующие восемь стран вместе взятые, причем шесть из них — наши союзники. |
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Nor should they be asked to devote some of their taxes to helping other countries out of love and reverence for European flags or anthems. |
И им нельзя предлагать посвятить часть своих налогов помощи другим странам из любви и почтения к европейским флагам или гимнам. |
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We would love to trade and do other (peaceful) business with those countries . |
Мы будем с огромным удовольствием заниматься с этими странами торговлей и всяким прочим бизнесом (мирным). |
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Machiavelli was at his core a Florentine patriot, who wrote, “I love my country more than my soul,” and his book repeatedly betrays anguish at its downfall. |
Макиавелли в основе своей был патриотом Флоренции и писал: «Я люблю свою страну больше собственной души». А в его книге постоянно сквозит отчаяние от ее падения. |
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And, according to a new clause, only candidates who love the country , and love Hong Kong would be allowed. |
И, согласно новой статье, только кандидаты, которые любят страну и любят Гонконг будут допущены. |
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For Christians, how does a gospel of love turn into a gospel of hate toward fellow countrymen in Africa? |
Что касается христиан, то как евангелие любви могло превратиться в евангелие ненависти к своим согражданам в африканской стране? |
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It was then that I realized that I could not be in love with my country right now. |
Именно в этот момент я поняла, что в данный момент я не могу любить свою страну. |
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For my part I’ve no more love for my country than I have for Botany Bay! |
Что до меня, то я люблю свою родину не больше, чем Ботани — Бэй! |
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But simultaneously we condition them to love all country sports. |
Но одновременно мы внедряем в них любовь к загородным видам спорта. |
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And let us drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again. |
И давай выпьем за надежду на то, что однажды эта страна наша, которую мы любим так сильно, обретет опять величие, и превосходство, и мир. |
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Should he be untrue at once to his love, to country , to his word? |
Изменить всему сразу: любви, дружбе, слову! |
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A love that reunites torn countries and sets captive spirits free. |
Любовь, которая воссоединяет разрушенные страны, и освобождает пленных духов. |
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Love was a wonderful new country to be explored. A sensual land of hidden valleys and exciting dales and glens and rivers of honey. |
С каждой минутой она открывала новые чудеса в неведомой стране, именуемой Любовь, где так много скрытых долин страсти, ручьев и источников жгучих ласк, полных меда и обожания. |
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This is exactly the sort of damp, muddy countryside that ramblists love. |
Это нечто вроде свалки, грязное бездорожье, так любимое водителями внедорожников. |
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When Diego came, Belgrade was grappling with the perplexing historical lesson of how to love the West once again after it had bombed the town and destroyed it out of fondness for the country . |
Когда Диего приехал, Белград пытался переварить сложный исторический урок: как полюбить Запад после того, как он бомбил город и разрушил его из любви к нашей стране. |
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I love my country , and I love serving in the Marines. |
Я люблю свою страну, и я люблю службу на Флоте. |
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He fell in love contrary to all the tradition of his austere and jealous country raising which demands in the object physical inviolability. |
Влюбляется вопреки всем заповедям своего ревнивого и строгого деревенского воспитания, требующего, чтобы предмет любви был физически непочат. |
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I believe in a strong judicial system… and the right to assimilate into the country I love! |
Я верю в прочную юридическую систему! И в право ассимиляции в страну, которую я люблю ! |
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But this is not provided my love and my devotion to my country Tampering or mitigated. |
Но тем не менее это никак не преуменьшает и не ослабляет моей любви к своей стране. |
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Ah! While we love, while we are true to each other, here in this land of peace and beauty, your native country , we may reap every tranquil blessing — what can disturb our peace? |
Пока мы любам — пока мы верны друг другу, здесь, в стране красоты и покоя, твоем родном краю, нам доступны все мирные радости жизни, и что может нарушить наш покой? |
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And as our country seems to be more and more divided, the only hope is that J.J. Abrams’ new national anthem will appeal to everyone and bring back those nostalgic memberberries we know and love. |
Так как наша страна становится всё более разделённой, осталась единственная надежда на новый национальный гимн, который привлечёт всех и вернёт ностальгические воспоминания, которые мы помним и любим. |
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A cynical political expedient to take away the right of these brave young women to speak the truth about the country they love. |
Циничный политический прием, чтобы лишить этих смелых женщин права говорить правду о стране, которую любят. |
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You’re up for reelection. Yes, maybe I get carried away sometimes with my love for this great country and the troops and the flagtroops… |
Ну, может меня и заносит местами, но и то по причине любви к этой великой стране, и войскам, и к флагам с войсками |
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Friends Romans countrymen if music be the food of love… |
Друзья Римляне селяне если музыка — это пища для любви… |
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I know you love him very much- but I really feel weshould send him back to the country . |
Я знаю, что ты очень любишь Макса, но я считаю, что будет лучше если мы отправим его назад, в деревню. |
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Everyone in the country every country in the world are holding hands and singing songs about peace and love. |
Все в этой стране, да во всех странах мира, взялись за руки и поют песни о дружбе и любви. |
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I mean, I love the country life- the fresh air, waking up to the sound of the birds singing. |
Обожаю жизнь за городом. Дышать свежим воздухом, просыпаться под пение птиц… |
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I would love to drive cross country . Get me a big ol’ RV. |
Я бы с удовольствием поколесила по стране, лишь дайте мне большой автотрейлер. |
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She is trying to marry her true love, but that old-country, last-century, Polish, patriarchal crap is trying to squash her soul, and succeeding, you know? |
Она пытается выйти замуж за свою настоящую любовь, но этот страрпёр из прошлого века, этот поляк, патриархальная заноза, пытается задавить ее душу, и у него это получается, понимаешь? |
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Perhaps that is what is called patriotism, love of home and country . |
Быть может, это и называют патриотизмом, любовью к отчему дому, к родному краю. |
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Now, you can imagine my disappointment when it suddenly dawned on me that the woman I love is about to be kicked out of the country . |
Представь моё разочарование, когда до меня дошло, что женщину, которую я люблю , вот — вот выставят из страны. |
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Who is here so vile that will not love his country ? |
Есть ли между вами человек столь гнусный, что не любит своей родины? |
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And once Targoviste has been made into a graveyard for my love, go forth into the country . |
И когда Тарговишт станет кладбищем моей любви, ступайте в другие земли. |
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I used to love to walk around the country and just look at it. |
Я любил бродить по окрестностям и просто смотреть. |
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The race theories of his country did not correspond very well with what he understood of love. |
Расистские теории, проповедуемые в его отечестве, не вязались с его представлениями о любви. |
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I’m so in love with Lawrence, I couldn’t bear to be away from him, shut away in the country . |
Я так люблю Лоуренса, что просто уже не могла вынести разлуки с ним, запертая за городом. |
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The woman I love, the reason I travel across the country , she have do something terrible on a boat, — and now I can never forgive her. |
Любимай девушк, ради котором я долго ехай делал что — то ужаснай на корабля и я ее не прощай никогда. |
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I should be on fire with love of her. because, my brothers, I once roofed the country house of a certain colonel — |
Жив сгорел бы около нее… Потому что, братцы, крыл я однова крышу у полковника на даче… |
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Doris, my love, what do you think of the French countryside ? |
Дорис, радость моя, не хочешь ли пожить во французской деревне? |
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Both teams are playing for love of their country . |
Обе команды играют за любовь своей страны. |
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Your father realized that the love he could have for one person, or even two, could not make him forget the love he felt for his country and its people. |
Твой отец понимал, что его любовь к одному или двум людям не даст ему забыть любовь к своей стране и своему народу. |
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and while most countries are grateful to be featured on the show, not every nation is in love with america’s first family of television. |
и в то время, как большинство стран благодарны за отображение в шоу, не все страны любят первую семью на ТВ в Америке. |
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Love is now part of the deal that we are offering over and above that which is on offer from your countrymen . |
Любовь теперь — часть сделки, которую мы заключаем помимо той сделки с вашими соотечественниками. |
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My country is by no means perfect, but at least we are free to criticize our government, vote in fair elections, and love whom we choose. |
Моя страна не так уж и идеальна, но, по крайней мере, мы можем свободно критиковать правительство, голосовать на честных выборах и любить того, кого выбрали. |
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Too many ob-gyns aren’t able to practice their love with women across this country . |
Слишком много гинекологов и акушеров не могут практиковать их… Их любовь к женщинам по всей стране. |
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I would willingly believe so, said the woodsman, for never had this country such need to be supported by those who love her. |
Охотно этому поверю, — сказал иомен. — Никогда еще наша страна не нуждалась так в помощи тех, кто ее любит. |
Patriotism is national pride. It’s the feeling of being devoted to your country and vigorously supporting it. Proud of my country quotes are a collection of the best patriotic quotes.
Read these love for country quotes and find out why patriotism is important for protecting and preserving the nation.
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Patriotism is a permanent dedication to your country.
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Patriotism overrules government.
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When citizens are united, there’s no wrong that cannot be fixed.
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Extreme patriotism can be harmful.
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A country’s flag is an embodiment of its history.
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By looking out for yourself, you’re looking out for your country.
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Never forget your roots and show understanding towards everyone.
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Be loyal to your country, not to the institutions running it.
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Love for your country doesn’t mean love for the president.
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Injustice in your own country hurts the most.
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Ask yourself how you can contribute to your country.
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It’s nice to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.
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Real patriotism is expressed through making your country better.
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You will appreciate your country more after residing in a foreign one.
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People who make a real impact don’t rely solely on money.
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Humanism at its best.
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A country remains free as long as its citizens are brave.
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Loving your country doesn’t necessarily mean supporting your government.
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Love for your native country makes you the best cosmopolite.
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What makes a nation united is a common past.
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Love your country, as well as the others.
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Serving your country till the last breath is a noble mission.
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It’s our duty to make our countries a good place to love in for everyone.
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You will love your country even more once you understand that it’s completely yours.
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Sacrificing yourself for your country is a noble act.
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People who love their country are the ones who can change it.
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Every country will become more developed eventually.
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Love your country, but don’t do it blindly.
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Love your country because it’s yours.
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Love of one’s country keeps patriotism glowing.
Proud of my country quotes show us what real patriotism is. It is the love for your country and the sense of belonging to your nation. Striving to make your country better is the most patriotic act that one can do.
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What does it mean to be a patriot? What does it mean to love your country? Should you support your nation unconditionally, no matter what, and in any situation? Let’s talk about these questions on today’s episode of Thinking in English!
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Vocabulary List
Unconditionally (adv) – in a way that is complete and not limited in any way
He thanked his mother for being unconditionally supportive
Imaginary (adj) – something that is imaginary is created by and exists only in the mind
As a child, my brother had an imaginary friend
Connotation (n) – a feeling or idea that is suggested by a particular word although it need not be a part of the word’s meaning, or something suggested by an object or situation
“Resolute” means stubborn, but with a more positive connotation
To diverge (v) – to follow a different direction, or to be or become different
Although the two organisations used to work closely together, their objectives have diverged recently
Exclusionary (adj) – causing someone or something not to be allowed to take part in an activity or to enter a place
The political party has been criticised for its exclusionary membership rules
Superiority (n) – the fact that one person or thing is better, stronger, etc. than another
The French football team demonstrated their superiority over the Spanish last night
Flaw (n) – a fault, mistake, or weakness
This report is full of flaws
Meaningful (adj) – useful, serious, or important
It is difficult to form meaningful relationships with colleagues when you work online
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Most of you probably don’t care about the game of chess (and neither do I really), but recently there has been a great deal of controversy within the International Chess Federation. Russian Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin has been banned for six months from international competition after publicly supporting Vladimir Putin and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Whether banning him is right or wrong, and the ethics of Russia’s actions in Ukraine, are not the topic of this episode. Instead, something Karjakin tweeted earlier this month made me think. On March 11, Karjakin tweeted “No matter what happens, I will support my country in any situation without thinking for a second!”
“I will support my country in any situation.” In other words, his support and love for his country is unconditional. He will always support Russia. Why?
I’m not interested in Karjakin’s specific love and support for Russia, but in the wider philosophical question of supporting your country. What does it mean to be a patriot? What does it mean to love your country? And should you support your country unconditionally, or in Karjakin’s words, “in any situation without thinking for a second”?
Imagined Communities
I think before we get into discussing nationalism and patriotism, it is worth taking a second to think about what a country is. I actually recorded an episode about how to make your own country a few months ago, but today I want to think a little more philosophically about the topic.
I’m going to make a slightly controversial or confusing statement now – your nation is imaginary. I use the word nation here instead of country, as country is a political organisation. However, countries are also something imagined by people – if you took away all the humans from our planet there would be no countries: there would be islands, forests, mountains, rivers, trees, and plants…. But no Indonesia, China, Sudan, or Barbados.
Benedict Anderson, one of the most respected political scientists of the 20th century, came up with the term “imagined communities” in the 1980s to help him study nationalism. Our nations, the nations that we love and support, are “imagined communities.” Why imagined? They are imagined because you are never going to know, meet, or even hear about the vast majority of other members of the community (or other people from your country). You have no relationship, no connection, other than being born in the same political community.
However, just because the nation is imagined, doesn’t mean it is not important or influential. Even someone like myself, who is constantly critical and annoyed at my country, supports the English football team during international tournaments and cheers for the UK athletes at the Olympic games. We see members of our nation as the same of us, as connected to us, even if those connections are not necessarily real.
While football tournaments and the Olympic games are relatively harmless ways to support your country, our love for our “imagined communities” can be devastating. Regardless of the conditions within our countries, the inequality, poverty, or corruption, people still tend to feel a need to support their nation. And over the past 100 or so years, millions of people have been willing to die to defend their nation and their country against other nations and countries. Willing to die for people they will have never met, and willing to die for a country that often treats them poorly or unfairly.
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Patriotism vs Nationalism
You’ve heard me use a few words connected to the debate over loving your country already in this episode: specifically patriotism and nationalism. But what are these and what do they mean? And, perhaps more importantly, what is the difference?
Both patriotism and nationalism are words that involve some form of pride and love for your country, but they have very different connotations.
What is Patriotism?
According to dicitonary.com, the noun patriotism means “devoted love, support, and defence of one’s country; national loyalty.” When we think of the word patriotism, we often think about the people who defend our countries, as well as others who serve the country.
Individual acts of patriotism include volunteering your time to help your country, displaying your pride by owning a national flag, or supporting your country’s sports teams.
In the 19th century, patriotism and nationalism had very similar meanings and usages – however since then they have grown apart. Actually, it is probably more accurate to say that while patriotism still has the same meaning, nationalism has diverged.
What is Nationalism?
Like patriotism, nationalism means to have a love or devotion to one’s country or nation. It is used to talk about strong support and love for your homeland. However, there is a key distinction between the two terms.
Nationalism is exclusionary. While patriotism means you have pride in your country, it doesn’t mean that you think or believe your country is superior or better when compared to other nations. However, this is a component of nationalism – the belief that your country’s culture and interest is more important than other places’ or other nations’.
In other words, nationalism is a form of aggression or excessive patriotism. Fascist regimes in the 1930s and 1940s mixed ideas of nationalism with ideas of ethnic and cultural superiority. In modern usage, nationalism tends to be used to describe political movements such as Brexit, Donald Trump, and other leaders around the world.
When you use these words, it is important you understand the context. Patriotism tends to be relatively positive – it refers to the positive action of loving, supporting, and having pride in your country. Working to improve your country, and help your country, is patriotism.
On the other hand, nationalism tends to be relatively negative. We use it for political movements and ideologies that dislike foreigners, immigrants, or even ethnic minorities within a country. Rather than simply having pride in your country, nationalism suggests that you believe your country should be considered better and superior to others.
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If you are a patriot, and have pride in your country, does this mean you should support your country unconditionally? In any situation?
I asked this question to a few friends from Germany and Taiwan while we were at a restaurant last week, and we all agreed that we don’t support our countries unconditionally. Some of my past episodes on Thinking in English (the insulting Boris Johnson one in particular) probably show you that I am not afraid to be critical of the UK. In fact, as a student I organised protests against the UK’s refugee policies and I am constantly critical of Britain’s historical actions around the world.
However, a lot of people seem to think that being critical of the actions of your country means that you are not patriotic. I don’t particularly like singing the British national anthem, and I find the idea of displaying your country’s flag everywhere a little strange, but this doesn’t mean I hate the UK. I was too young to oppose Britain’s involvement in the Iraq war, but I was definitely against UK military action in Libya and Syria. Moreover, I ran an Amnesty International group in the UK that did a campaign against the British weapons being used by dictatorships.
This doesn’t mean I hate my country. To me, loving your country and being patriotic, means seeing the flaws and mistakes in your country. Nationalists have a saying, “my country right or wrong” – the suggestion being that you should support your country whether they are right or wrong.
However, I like this quote from Lee Child’s Jack Reacher books better, “My country, right or wrong. Which means nothing, unless you admit your country is wrong sometimes. Loving a country that was right all the time would be common sense, not patriotism.” You can still support your country, even if you admit the flaws and negatives.
I believe the UK’s history of colonialism is terrible. Does this mean I hate the UK? No, it doesn’t. But I understand the negatives, and believe that more should be done in the UK to support the victims of colonialism and educate the British public about the realities of the Empire.
Should you support your country unconditionally, no matter what, and in any situation? I don’t think so. Countries do stupid, violent, and insane things all the time. Especially in our modern political systems – oligarchies, representative democracies, and dictatorships – normal people don’t really have any meaningful voice in the decisions our country makes. Why should we be expected to support the decisions made by the powerful?
Final Thought
In this episode of Thinking in English, I have tried to make you think about your loyalty, pride, and support of your country. I also tried to introduce the concepts of “imagined communities,” nationalism, and patriotism. It is perfectly fine to love and support your nation, but should this support be unconditional? Should you love and support your country’s actions no matter what, in all situations?
Personally, I believe you should support your country, but not unconditionally. And that a true patriot wants to improve their country, which can only happen when you admit your country has done wrong. However, I’m aware some of you listening will definitely disagree with me. If you do disagree with me, let me know why!
What do you think? Should we support our countries unconditionally?
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25 Quotes for Love of Country
Love of country is an exceptional feeling. We all feel blessed for having a land of our own. We celebrate this independence, explode fireworks and so on. There are countless sacrifices of our ancestors behind it. What we all need is to be thankful for having an independent land and value its worth. We all have a patriot in ourselves, just keep it awake. Here we have some love of country quotes to not only inspire you but to let you know the value of independence.
25 Quotes for Love of Country
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They accepted death to set you free.
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A true nationalist works for the love of country.
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No other land but our own country offers the highest good.
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Believe in the equality of rights for countrymen.
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We all are the citizens of the world.
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What can you do for your country?
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Fighting for country and its rights is a noble deed.
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Loving your home means you love your homeland.
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Unity brings peace and harmony.
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Loyalty to country, no matter what.
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Modern war is not for the love of country.
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Don’t let the selfish men govern you.
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Criticism can be healthy.
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Choose the right path for your country.
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People who love their country, can change it.
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Let your country be proud of you.
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Love of country is a splendid thing.
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Residing in a foreign country, will make you understand the worth of your land.
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Strive to make your country best.
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Love your country because it’s your own.
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It’s special because you were born here.
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Their sacrifices must not be forgotten.
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Learn to love your country, these love of country quotes may help.