Patriotism Quotes

» Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

» Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

» Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

» It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

» Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

» Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

» Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

» I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

» The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

» I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

» Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

» You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

» Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

» To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

» A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

» Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

» I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

» And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

» I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

» The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

» It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

» There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

» A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

» The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

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