Quotes about patriotism

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

Malcolm X on patriotism   

"God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother."

Mazzini, Giuseppe on patriotism   

"O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous family which we love and are loved by, and with which we have a more intimate and quicker communion of feeling and thought than with others; a family which by its concentration upon a given spot, and by the homogeneous nature of its elements, is destined for a special kind of activity."

Mazzini, Giuseppe on patriotism   

"Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land."

Melville, Herman on patriotism   

"Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it."

Mencken, H. L. on patriotism
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"Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."

Nathan, George Jean on patriotism   

"The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."

Paine, Thomas on patriotism   

"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have."

Roosevelt, Theodore on patriotism
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"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."

Russell, Bertrand on patriotism   

"A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur on patriotism   

"Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!"

Scott, Sir Walter on patriotism   

"You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race."

Shaw, George Bernard on patriotism   

"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy."

Shaw, George Bernard on patriotism   

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

Shaw, George Bernard on patriotism   

"What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on patriotism   

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

Stevenson, Adlai E. on patriotism   

"My country, always wrong."

Student Slogan on patriotism   

"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."

Thoreau, Henry David on patriotism   

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"I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided b"

Washington, George on patriotism   

"He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly."

Wells, H.G. on patriotism   

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"How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?"

Wharton, Edith on patriotism   

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

Stevenson, Adlai E. on patriotism