Patriotism Quotes & Sayings

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

Bertrand Russell

~ Patriotism is a menace to liberty. ~

Emma Goldman

~ Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion. ~

Gustave Herve

~ Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all means - by preaching, persuasion, contempt and ridicule. ~

Leo Tolstoy

~ Patriotism is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a web of lies and falsehoods, robbing us of our dignity and increasing our arrogance and conceit. ~

Emma Goldman

~ Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power. ~

Leo Toystoy

~ I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home. ~

Henry James

~ I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who think they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other countries. ~

Andy Rooney

~ Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. ~

Denis Diderot

~ Patriotism is just loyalty to friends, people, families. ~

Robert Santos

~ Patriotism has a lot to do with the success of the show ~

George Peppard

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

W. R. Inge

~ Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism ~

George Orwell

~ Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. ~

Mark Twain

~ Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least. ~

Wendy Kaminer

~ Patriotism ruins history. ~

Goethe

~ Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit. ~

Emma Goldman

~ Patriotism is just loyalty to friends, people, families. ~

Robert Santos

Emma Goldman

~ That kind of patriotism which consists of hating all other nations. ~

Elizabeth Gaskell

~ It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. And this love is excited, primarily, by the beauty of the country. ~

Horace J. McFarland

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

Adlai Stevenson

~ Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practised. ~

Robert Walpole

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

Albert Einstein

~ During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. ~

Howard Thurman

~ When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism! ~

David Starr Jordan

~ Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them ~

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

~ Patriotism is the religion of hell ~

James Branch Cabell

~ The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain ~

George McGovern

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