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

    Funny   Wisdom   Country  
  • He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

    Love   Country   Peace  
    "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.
  • Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

  • Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.144, Wordsworth Editions
  • Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

    George Washington (1810). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States”, p.17
  • He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

    "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.
  • 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

  • It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.56, St. Martin's Press
  • One of the great attractions of patriotism

    Aldous Huxley (2010). “Eyeless In Gaza”, p.185, Random House
  • Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

    Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.10, Broadway Books
  • Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

  • 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 (1990). “Malcolm X on Afro-American History”, Pathfinder Press
  • All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

    Brother   War   Hippie  
  • Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

  • Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

    "Dissent In Pursuit Of Equality, Life, Liberty And Happiness: An Interview With Historian Howard Zinn". Interview with Sharon Basco, July 3, 2002.
  • Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

    "Sceptical Essays". Ch. 13: Freedom in Society. Book by Bertrand Russell, 1928.
  • Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.

  • Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment in the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the honest workingman.

    Exercise   Men   Shoes  
    Emma Goldman (2012). “Living My Life”, p.428, Courier Corporation
  • Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

    "Offensive Remarks Are Part of Free Speech" by Hilary Hirschfeld, www.smudailycampus.com. October 22, 2008.
  • To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.

  • Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

    Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.97, Library of Alexandria
  • True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

  • Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

  • The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

    George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”
  • Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

    Michael Crichton (2000). “Timeline”
  • One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

    Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”
  • You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

    Peace   Patriotic   Race  
    'O'Flaherty V.C.' (1919) p. 178
  • Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves nobler, better, grander, more intelligent than those living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.

    "What is Patriotism?". Emma Goldman's Speech in San Francisco, California, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. April 26, 1908.
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