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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  
  • Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man - with his mouth.

    Country   Patriotic   Men  
    Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.121, Univ of California Press
  • I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

  • Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

    Bertrand Russell (1962). “Has Man a Future?”
  • The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.

    "Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited and translated by Shoghi Effendi, 1935.
  • Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

    Testament of a Critic bk. 1 (1931)
  • It's only important to differentiate between patriotism and nationalism. I speak of enlightened patriotism.

  • My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

    Peace   Men   Rivers  
  • Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

    Mark Twain, Louis J. Budd (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches, & essays: 1891-1910”
  • Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

    Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”
  • To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

    George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2002). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.192, MIT Press
  • Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

  • Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.

  • Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.144, Wordsworth Editions
  • Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2230, Delphi Classics
  • A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.

    Quoted in The Canadian, 22 Dec. 1973
  • Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

    Life   Country   Peace  
    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.68, Open Road Media
  • Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

    Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.83, Simon and Schuster
  • My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ch. 13 (1889)
  • Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

  • Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.293, Princeton University Press
  • A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

    George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”
  • Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

    Life Magazine, May 9, 1969.
  • There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

    Peace   War   Patriotic  
    Howard Zinn (1993). “Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian”, p.118, South End Press
  • Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honor, We pledge to our native soil. God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all.

    Heart   Men   Patriotism  
  • This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. 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
  • The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

    Love   Country   Mean  
    William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.111
  • The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

    "Joys and Sorrows : Reflections‎ by Pablo Casals as told to Albert E. Kahn". Book by Albert E. Kahn, 1974.
  • It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

    Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books
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