Quotes from Bertram M. Gross

Elected officials are manufactured personalities and celebrities.

We are only permitted to take emotional stands on issues that do not affect corporate power.

They enjoyed the passive acquiescence—and at times the direct support—of the police, the army, and the church.

Meanwhile Adolf Hitler, the only right-wing nationalist with a mass following, was publicly promising full employment and prosperity.

Some know full well what Bernard Shaw had in mind when he wrote that "All great truths begin as blasphemies." Rather

In The Reason for Democracy, published after his death in 1976, Kalman Silvert of New York University provided another pungent description of false patriots: "People who wrap themselves in the flag and proclaim the sanctity of the nation are usually racists, contemptuous of the poor and dedicated to keeping the community of 'ins' small and pure of blood, spirit and mind.