Below you will find a set of quotations randomly selected from the GMI database. Each set is based around a common theme, as in GAMSAT. To practise for Section 2, give yourself five minutes thinking time and then allow 30 minutes writing time for an essay based on the quotations. For some feedback, you may wish to consider posting your completed essay in the PagingDr Essay Practice and Critique thread. To get another set, simply reload the page. If you would like to suggest a quotation for the database, submit a comment below.
1: Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
George Jean Nathan (1882 – 1958) ,2: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) ,3: You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950), "Misalliance"4: Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970) ,5: "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936) ,
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