Quotes on patriotism
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
Shaw, George Bernard
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?
Pascal, Blaise
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Russell, Bertrand
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Maupassant, Guy de
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.
Twain, Mark
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
Santayana, George
To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.
Buddha
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.
Clarke, Arthur C.
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.
Bryce, James
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.
Lincoln, Abraham
Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
Nathan, George Jean
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Einstein, Albert
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Aldington, Richard
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.
Aristophanes