The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the …

Leo Tolstoy
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The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born. ✨ graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy
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