No doubt for the average man nationalism is no more than one of the faiths that live together in actual if illogical partnership i...n his heart and mind (illogical in the sense that some of these faiths, say Christianity and national patriotism, may have mutually incompatible ethical ideals). Yet it is hard to exaggerate the extent to which for many modern Western men the worship of the nation-state occupies a major part of their conscious relations with groups outside the family.... The ritual surrounding the flag, patriotic hymns, the reverent reading of patriotic texts, the glorification of national heroes (saints), the insistence on the nation's mission, the nation's basic consonance with the scheme of the universe--all of this is so familiar to most of us that unless we are internationalist crusaders in favor of a world-state or some other proposed means for securing universal peace we never even notice it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better, ...we've called the military error.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is the Christianity of tenderness. But ... it is utterly pushed aside by the Christianity of self-glorification: the self-gl...orification of the humble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification of... the spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and... done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Police officer: Say chief. This fellow Comante.... Public's interested in him. He's a colorful character. Chief Detective: Co...lorful. What color is a trawling louse? Say listen, that's the attitude of too many morons in this country. They think these big hoodlums are some sort of demagogues. Whad a they do about a guy like Comante, they sentimentalize him. Romance. Make jokes about 'em. They had some excuse for glorifying our old Western badmen. They met in the middle of the street at high noon waiting for each other to draw. But these fiends sneak up, shoot a guy in the back, and then run away. Colorful ... When I think what goes on in the minds of these lice, I wanna vomit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Newspaperman: That was a magnificent work. There were these mass columns of Apaches in their war paint and feather bonnets. And he...re was Thursday leading his men in that heroic charge. Capt. York: Correct in every detail. Newspaperman: He's become almost a legend already. He's the hero of every schoolboy in America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »