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patriotism

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

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

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

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.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

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

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

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

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

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

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

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

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.