QuoteQuest“Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is an evil, and most of them will agree, but with a reservation. "Yes," they will say, "wrong patriotism is an evil; but there is another kind, the kind we hold." But just what this good patriotism is, no one explains.”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Leo Tolstoy
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- reference · Secondary source
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Context
Patriotism, or Peace? (1896), translated by Nathan Haskell Dole
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Tolstoy, Leo. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Leo Tolstoy. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy
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