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

patriotism

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 quotes from George Santayana

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized. 2 other thoughts from Steve Allen

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose. 2 more views from Frank Knox

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

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

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

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

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

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

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. 30 wisdom & wit from George Washington

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. 105 quotes 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 wisdom & wit 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 more thoughts from Earl Warren

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

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

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. 14 more quotes 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 thoughts from Malcolm X

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. 115 more quotes 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 thoughts from Calvin Coolidge

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

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

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 other thoughts from Leo Tolstoy

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. 63 other quotes 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 thoughts from O. Henry

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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