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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. -- Mark Twain
The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born. -- Leo Tolstoy
Patriotism ruins history. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Patriotism corrupts history. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Patriotism alone is not enough. -- Edith Cavell
Patriotism can results in racism -- Irfan Ullah Hosain
Patriotism covers a multitude of sins. -- Carolyn Wells
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. -- Henry Louis Gates
...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism. -- Mark Twain
Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice. -- Chiang Kai-shek
Patriotism is idolatry of the self. -- Simone Weil
Patriotism is the religion of hell. -- James Branch Cabell
Patriotism is a menace to liberty. -- Emma Goldman
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde
Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel. -- Ambrose Bierce
Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism. -- David Ehrenfeld
Patriotism is a joke in the UK. -- Matt Tong
Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence. -- George William Curtis
Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor. -- William Plomer
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson
Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency. -- Grover Cleveland
Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war. -- Helen Caldicott
Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal. -- William Jennings Bryan
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. -- George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism means loving our country, not the government. -- Mike Cloud
Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. -- Richard Aldington
Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society. -- Michael Ignatieff
Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery. -- George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings. -- Bob Dylan
Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy. -- William Ralph Inge
Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose. -- Frank Knox
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. -- George Jean Nathan
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. -- Henry Bolingbroke
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. -- Bill Kristol
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. -- George Orwell
Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers. -- Leo Tolstoy
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. -- Bertrand Russell
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. -- Bill Kristol
Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts. -- Mick Jagger
Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Patriotism has a lot to do with the success of the show -- George Peppard
Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same. -- Tao Lin
Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion. -- Gustave Herve
Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride. -- Anne-Marie Slaughter
Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards any one. -- Edith Cavell
Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it. -- Jacob M. Appel
Patriotism does not mean giving blind loyalty and a blank check to George W. Bush. -- Jello Biafra
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. -- Guy de Maupassant
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. -- Ambrose Bierce
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest. -- Mark Twain
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. -- H. G. Wells
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. -- Denis Diderot
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think. -- Aldo Leopold
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. -- Thomas Jefferson
Patriotism for the sake of is like choosing sides in a war based on the color of their uniforms. -- Dov Davidoff
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. -- Calvin Coolidge
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare. -- Mark Twain
Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least. -- Wendy Kaminer
The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . . -- George Washington
I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions. -- Jose Rizal
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. -- James Bryce
Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents. -- Jesse Ventura
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. -- Michael Ignatieff
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. -- Charles de Gaulle
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen. -- Ambrose Bierce
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.... -- George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle. -- Ashok K. Banker
My yearn for home is broadened Patriotism expanded By callings from beyond So I pack my things Nothing precious All things sacred -- Alanis Morissette
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda - and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American. -- John Irving
Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us. -- Chris Hedges
Patriotism is not dying for one's country, it is living for one's country. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it's better. -- Agnes Macphail
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families. -- Benjamin Rush
Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other. -- David Ehrenfeld
I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. -- Jesse Ventura
Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it. -- Max Eastman
Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion. -- W. C. Brownell
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Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Patriotism is (like) loving your family whether it is good or bad, while always striving to make it better. Nationalism simply insists 'Hey my family is the best'.. -- Peter Jennings
Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's? -- Wallace Shawn
The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister. -- Emma Goldman
Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all means - by preaching, persuasion, contempt and ridicule. -- Leo Tolstoy
Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult. -- Ernest Belfort Bax
Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and ennobles great and small alike. -- Percy Dearmer
Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit. -- Emma Goldman
Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands? -- Marie Corelli
Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice. -- Jesse Ventura
Patriotism is the intelligent appreciation that one's own welfare is inseparably connected with the general welfare and that to prosper personally one must intelligently do his utmost to maintain the general prosperity. -- Julius Sterling Morton
One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as traitors, to be silenced and imprisoned. -- Howard Zinn
Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
President Eisenhower saw it coming, and it is here. Patriotism no longer exists among many of these corporations. Some companies have more economic clout than entire countries. They can make or break a politician. -- Byron Dorgan
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same. -- George Orwell
Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not be true to the best interests and general welfare of his country. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out. -- Robert Graves
Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Patriotism which has the quality of intoxication is a danger not only to its native land but to the world, and "My country never wrong" is an even more dangerous maxim than "My country, right or wrong." -- Bertrand Russell
Patriotism can flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who scorns the homelands of others. -- Johannes Rau
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. -- John F. Kennedy
Patriotism is not endlessly bragging that out country is the best; rather it is wanting one's country to be the best that it can be and helping it to be that best, which is a very different matter. -- Robert Stam
The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George...Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security. -- Ron Paul
Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person. -- Charles Edward Montague
The founders of the Republic dealt with things as they were presented to them, in a spirit of self sacrificing Patriotism and as time has proved, with a comprehensive wisdom which it will always be safe for us to consult -- Franklin Pierce
Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border. -- Shane Claiborne
Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country. -- Samuel Johnson
Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads. -- Henry David Thoreau
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power. -- Leo Tolstoy
Patriotism is a tricky way that neutralizes the life instinct -- Eros; you give your life as a sacrifice for others who never share even their wealth with you. The irony is that even their wealth seems to be more valuable for them than your life -- Elmar Hussein
"Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others." -- Robert Anton Wilson
Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country. -- Ricardo Montalban
Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. -- George Washington

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