patriotism
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
17 more quotes from Friedrich Durrenmatt
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
2 quotes from David Starr Jordan
Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
2 more sayings from Frank Knox
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
9 other quotes from Alfred Adler
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
3 other thoughts from Adlai Stevenson
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
12 more thoughts from George Jean Nathan
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
6 more 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 wisdom & wit from Arthur Schopenhauer
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
30 quotes from George Washington
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
105 other 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 more 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 more wisdom & wit from Earl Warren
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
14 more sayings from Clarence Darrow
Patriotism is the religion of hell.
2 quotes from James Branch Cabell
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
16 quotes from David Hume
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 more sayings from Malcolm X
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
45 wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell
It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
3 quotes from Ho Chi Minh
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 wisdom & wit from Malcolm X
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
8 more 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 wisdom & wit from William Ralph Inge
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
47 sayings from George Orwell
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
17 wisdom & wit from Calvin Coolidge
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
2 views from George Borrow
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
4 more 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 quotes from Jane Addams
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
63 other sayings 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 wisdom & wit from O. Henry
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 other sayings from Leo Tolstoy
There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.
2 other quotes from Jonathan Mayhew
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
100 more wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
16 other thoughts from Denis Diderot
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
8 other thoughts from William Shenstone
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
19 views from Charles de Gaulle
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
98 sayings from Mark Twain
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
98 other quotes from Mark Twain
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
78 wisdom & wit from Voltaire
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 views from Dale Carnegie
The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
3 sayings from Clara Barton
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
3 sayings from Pablo Casals
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
46 more quotes from George Santayana
Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.
2 more quotes from Steve Allen