Patriotism Quotes & Sayings

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

~ Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. ~

Charles de Gaulle

~ Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone and as irrational as a headless hen. ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. ~

Dale Carnegie

~ Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. ~

Henry Steele Commager

~ Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism ~

John Haynes Holmes

~ Patriotism ruins history. ~

Goethe

~ Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. "Patriotism" is its cult. ~

Erich Fromm

~ There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization. ~

Oscar S. Strauss

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

George Jean Nathan

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Guy de Maupassant

~ You’ll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race. ~

George Bernard Shaw

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

Adlai E. Stevenson

~ Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. ~

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. ~

Arthur Schopenhauer

~ True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. ~

Clarence Seward Darrow

~ When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? ~

Lin Yutang

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Albert Einstein

~ One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. ~

Aldous Huxley

~ America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape. ~

William Blum

~ The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres. ~

Bruno Bauer

~ Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy. ~

W. R. Inge

~ Blind patriotism has been kept intact by rewriting history to provide people with moral consolation and a psychological basis for denial. ~

William H. Boyer

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

George Bernard Shaw

~ Patriotism knows neither latitude nor longitude. It is not climatic. ~

E.A. Storrs

~ 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. ~

George William Curtis

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