#2,864

Even when patriotic historians become angry, the history of many countries is completely lacking in interest.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 458

#2,777

Cultural rhetoric today replaces patriotic rhetoric, in the effusive expectorations of fools.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446

#2,380

An obscurantist canon of the old metropolitan chapter of Santa Fe, a brusque church lady from Bogotá, an uncouth cattle rancher from the savanna, we are of the same ilk.
With my current compatriots I share only my passport.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 385

#2,021

Collective pretentiousness comes to be more revolting than individual pretentiousness. Patriotism should be mute.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 328

#1,472

That patriotism which is not a carnal adhesion to specific landscapes, is rhetoric designed by semi-educated men to spur the illiterate on towards the slaughterhouse.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 248

#1,134

A “patriot,” in democracies, is someone who lives from the State; an “egoist,” someone from whom the State lives.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 199