Quotes on patriotism
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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?
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Blaise Pascal Quotes
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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.
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Mark Twain Quotes
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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George Santayana Quotes
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
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Voltaire Quotes
To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.
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Buddha Quotes
The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
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George Meredith Quotes
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
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J. Horace McFarland Quotes
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.
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George William Curtis Quotes
Real patriots ask questions.
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Carl Sagan Quotes
He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
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Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.
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Giuseppe Mazzini Quotes
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
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Earl Warren Quotes
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world.
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Socrates Quotes
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
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James Bryce Quotes
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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Pablo Casals Quotes
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?
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Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
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George Jean Nathan Quotes
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
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William Shenstone Quotes
He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
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Albert Einstein Quotes
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident.
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Montesquieu Quotes
I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.
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Rosika Schwimmer Quotes
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.
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Mark Twain Quotes
It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
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Baha'u'llah Quotes
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
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Eugene Debs Quotes
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
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Richard Aldington Quotes
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Aristophanes Quotes