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