patriotism
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
21 views 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 more 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 more sayings from Eugene V. Debs
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
98 other sayings from Mark Twain
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
78 more 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 more thoughts from William Shenstone
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.
2 other quotes from Steve Allen
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
3 sayings from Pablo Casals
The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
3 more sayings from Clara Barton
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
46 sayings from George Santayana
Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
2 other quotes from Frank Knox
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 views 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 sayings 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 thoughts from Arthur Schopenhauer
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
30 quotes from George Washington
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
12 more quotes from George Jean Nathan
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
3 views from Adlai Stevenson
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
9 wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit 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
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 other sayings from David Hume
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
14 thoughts 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 more quotes from Malcolm X
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
45 more wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
8 other thoughts from Joseph Brodsky
It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
3 views from Ho Chi Minh
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
47 other thoughts from George Orwell
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
10 quotes from William Ralph Inge
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
115 views from George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
17 quotes from Calvin Coolidge
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
2 thoughts from George Borrow
Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
4 views 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 wisdom & wit from Leo Tolstoy
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
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
2 views from Jane Addams
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
63 other quotes from Samuel Johnson
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
16 wisdom & wit from Denis Diderot
There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.
2 quotes from Jonathan Mayhew
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
100 thoughts from Oscar Wilde