The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
3 quotes from Pablo Casals
The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
3 more thoughts from Clara Barton
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
46 other thoughts from George Santayana
Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.
2 more sayings from Steve Allen
Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
2 more quotes from Frank Knox
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
2 other thoughts from David Starr Jordan
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
17 other quotes from Friedrich Durrenmatt
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
3 other quotes from Adlai Stevenson
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
12 quotes from George Jean Nathan
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
9 thoughts from Alfred Adler
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
6 thoughts from Sinclair Lewis
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
30 thoughts from 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.
29 quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
105 thoughts 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 more quotes 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 thoughts from Earl Warren
Patriotism is the religion of hell.
2 more quotes from James Branch Cabell
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
16 more views from David Hume
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
14 views 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 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 quotes from Malcolm X
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
45 sayings from Bertrand Russell
It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
3 views from Ho Chi Minh
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
8 wisdom & wit from Joseph Brodsky
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
10 other sayings from William Ralph Inge
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
47 thoughts from George Orwell
We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
27 views from Dave Barry
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
2 thoughts from George Borrow
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
115 other quotes 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 quotes from Calvin Coolidge
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
115 other wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
4 other quotes from Guy de Maupassant
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 quotes from Leo Tolstoy
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
63 wisdom & wit from Samuel Johnson
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
6 other views from O. Henry
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
2 thoughts from Jane Addams
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
16 other quotes from Denis Diderot
There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.
2 wisdom & wit from Jonathan Mayhew
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
2 sayings from Eugene V. Debs
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
21 wisdom & wit from Dale Carnegie
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
78 wisdom & wit from Voltaire
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
8 sayings from William Shenstone
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
98 wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
98 thoughts from Mark Twain
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
19 quotes from Charles de Gaulle