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Quotes from The Necessity and Grandeur of the International Ideal — Rebecca West

1892–1983 England

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It would seem … that man has been shocked by the war into forgetting how to be a political animal. This suspicion is confirmed by the spread of Fascism, which is a headlong flight into fantasy from the necessity for political thought.

The Necessity and Grandeur of the International Ideal (1935)

For one cannot serve the national spirit merely by getting a lump in the throat whenever one catches sight of the Union Jack, or by seeing red when a newspaper reports that some foreign power has acted aggressively towards England. These reactions bear the same relation to true love of country that a chance encounter between a man and a woman who meet in the street bears to a happy marriage.

The Necessity and Grandeur of the International Ideal (1935)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rebecca West (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.