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Norman Thomas : If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it. # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Love # Individuality

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Wilfrid Sheed : " It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point. " # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Love # Individuality

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Thomas Carlyle : " In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched. " # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Love # Individuality

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Hugo Ball : " The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? " # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Love # Individuality

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Friedrich Nietzsche : " Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. " # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Love # Individuality

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Rush Limbaugh : " Here is a Morning Update that we did recently, talking about fake soldiers. This is a story of who the left props up as heroes. They have their celebrities and one of them was Army Ranger Jesse MacBeth. Now, he was a "corporal." I say in quotes. Twenty-three years old. What made Jesse MacBeth a hero to the anti-war crowd wasn't his Purple Heart; it wasn't his being affiliated with post-traumatic stress disorder from tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. No. What made Jesse MacBeth, Army Ranger, a hero to the left was his courage, in their view, off the battlefield, without regard to consequences. He told the world the abuses he had witnessed in Iraq, American soldiers killing unarmed civilians, hundreds of men, women, even children. In one gruesome account, translated into Arabic and spread widely across the Internet, Army Ranger Jesse MacBeth describes the horrors this way: "We would burn their bodies. We would hang their bodies from the rafters in the mosque." Now, recently, Jesse MacBeth, poster boy for the anti-war left, had his day in court. And you know what? He was sentenced to five months in jail and three years probation for falsifying a Department of Veterans Affairs claim and his Army discharge record. He was in the Army. Jesse MacBeth was in the Army, folks, briefly. Forty-four days before he washed out of boot camp. Jesse MacBeth isn't an Army Ranger, never was. He isn't a corporal, never was. He never won the Purple Heart, and he was never in combat to witness the horrors he claimed to have seen. You probably haven't even heard about this. And, if you have, you haven't heard much about it. This doesn't fit the narrative and the template in the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party as to who is a genuine war hero. Don't look for any retractions, by the way. Not from the anti-war left, the anti-military Drive-By Media, or the Arabic websites that spread Jesse MacBeth's lies about our troops, because the truth for the left is fiction that serves their purpose. They have to lie about such atrocities because they can't find any that fit the template of the way they see the US military. In other words, for the American anti-war left, the greatest inconvenience they face is the truth. " # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Love # Individuality

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Alan W Watts : " I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag, whereas they are responsible for burning that for which the flag stands: the United States as a territory, as a people, and as a biological manifestation. That is an example of our perennial confusion of symbols with realities. " # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Love # Individuality

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Robert E Howard : " You express amazement at my statement that 'civilized' men try to justify their looting, butchering and plundering by claiming that these things are done in the interests of art, progress and culture. That this simple statement of fact should cause surprize, amazes me in return. People claiming to possess superior civilization have always veneered their rapaciousness by such claims... Your friend Mussolini is a striking modern-day example. In that speech of his I heard translated he spoke feelingly of the expansion of civilization. From time to time he has announced; 'The sword and civilization go hand in hand!' 'Wherever the Italian flag waves it will be as a symbol of civilization!' 'Africa must be brought into civilization!' It is not, of course, because of any selfish motive that he has invaded a helpless country, bombing, burning and gassing both combatants and non-combatants by the thousands. Oh, no, according to his own assertions it is all in the interests of art, culture and progress, just as the German war-lords were determined to confer the advantages of Teutonic Kultur on a benighted world, by fire and lead and steel. Civilized nations never, never have selfish motives for butchering, raping and looting; only horrid barbarians have those. " # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Love # Individuality

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Henri Matisse : " Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. " # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Love # Individuality

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Robert H Jackson : " But when notice is a person's due, process which is a mere gesture is not 'due process.' " # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Love # Individuality

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Milan Kundera : " A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations. " # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Love # Individuality

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Norman Thomas: " The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values." # Loyalty # Secrets # Life and Living

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Norman Thomas: " If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it." # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Love # Individuality

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Norman Thomas: " To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power." # America # Freedom # Power

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Norman Thomas: " After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement." # Critics and Criticism # Freedom # Riches

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