Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
21 other sayings from Dale Carnegie
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
19 sayings from Charles de Gaulle
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
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
98 sayings from Mark Twain
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
78 other quotes 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 quotes from Mark Twain
Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.
2 quotes from Steve Allen
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
3 other quotes from Pablo Casals
The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
3 sayings from Clara Barton
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
46 wisdom & wit from George Santayana
Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
2 more quotes from Frank Knox
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
17 more sayings from Friedrich Durrenmatt
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
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
6 other quotes from Sinclair Lewis
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 more quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
30 other sayings from George Washington
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
12 more thoughts from George Jean Nathan
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
3 more quotes from Adlai Stevenson
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
9 quotes from Alfred Adler
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 other views 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 quotes from Earl Warren
Patriotism is the religion of hell.
2 other views from James Branch Cabell
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
16 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 more 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 other sayings from Malcolm X
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
45 other thoughts from Bertrand Russell
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
8 more quotes from Joseph Brodsky
It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
3 wisdom & wit from Ho Chi Minh
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
10 more quotes from William Ralph Inge
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
47 views from George Orwell
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
115 thoughts 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 wisdom & wit from Calvin Coolidge
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 sayings from Dave Barry
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
2 other views from George Borrow
Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
4 quotes from Guy de Maupassant
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
2 other wisdom & wit from Jane Addams
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
6 other quotes from O. Henry
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
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 views from Leo Tolstoy
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
16 sayings from Denis Diderot
There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.
2 more wisdom & wit from Jonathan Mayhew
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
100 sayings from Oscar Wilde