Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

patriotism

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! 105 quotes 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 thoughts from Earl Warren

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 does it or who says it. 21 quotes from Malcolm X

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched. 4 more wisdom & wit 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

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 thoughts from Leo Tolstoy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 thoughts from Clara Barton

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

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized. 2 more quotes from Steve Allen

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose. 2 wisdom & wit from Frank Knox

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. 17 more wisdom & wit from Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

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

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 sayings from Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

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

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