You will not succeed. Do not waste your time on Social Questions. Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a sceptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist. If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait. A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.