Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

patriotism

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. 21 thoughts from Dale Carnegie

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. 19 quotes from Charles de Gaulle

I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. 2 quotes from Eugene V. Debs

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. 98 more sayings from Mark Twain

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. 78 quotes from Voltaire

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. 8 sayings from William Shenstone

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. 98 quotes from Mark Twain

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized. 2 other thoughts from Steve Allen

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? 3 quotes from Pablo Casals

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins. 3 more quotes from Clara Barton

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. 46 other views from George Santayana

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose. 2 other quotes from Frank Knox

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. 17 quotes from Friedrich Durrenmatt

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism! 2 thoughts from David Starr Jordan

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country. 6 quotes from Sinclair Lewis

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. 29 other thoughts from Arthur Schopenhauer

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. 30 other thoughts from George Washington

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. 12 more quotes from George Jean Nathan

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. 3 thoughts from Adlai Stevenson

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. 9 sayings from Alfred Adler

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. 105 thoughts from Albert Einstein

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! 105 more sayings from Albert Einstein

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. 6 quotes from Earl Warren

Patriotism is the religion of hell. 2 more quotes from James Branch Cabell

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. 16 thoughts from David Hume

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. 14 wisdom & wit from Clarence Darrow

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it. 21 quotes from Malcolm X

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. 21 other quotes from Malcolm X

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. 45 sayings from Bertrand Russell

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. 8 thoughts from Joseph Brodsky

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me. 3 sayings from Ho Chi Minh

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. 10 thoughts from William Ralph Inge

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. 47 wisdom & wit from George Orwell

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. 115 more thoughts from George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. 17 other quotes from Calvin Coolidge

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. 27 thoughts from Dave Barry

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. 115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. 2 thoughts from George Borrow

Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched. 4 thoughts from Guy de Maupassant

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. 2 quotes from Jane Addams

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! 6 sayings from O. Henry

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. 63 other quotes from Samuel Johnson

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. 21 quotes from Leo Tolstoy

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. 16 thoughts from Denis Diderot

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism. 2 other quotes from Jonathan Mayhew

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. 100 sayings from Oscar Wilde