Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
Denis Diderot
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
I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
Henry James
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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
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
You’ll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.
Gustave Herve
Blind patriotism has been kept intact by rewriting history to provide people with moral consolation and a psychological basis for denial.
William H. Boyer
I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
John F. Kerry
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale Carnegie
Patriotism ruins history.
Goethe
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde
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