Patriotism Quotes

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. (Samuel Johnson)
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. View quote
George Washington
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. View quote
Barbara Ehrenreich
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. (Clarence Darrow)
There is no happiness without patriotism. View quote
Władysław Sikorski
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. View quote
Denis Diderot
When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. View quote
Chaim Potok
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. View quote
Guy de Maupassant
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism. View quote
Robert Charles Winthrop
True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them - the desire to do right - is precisely the same. View quote
Robert E. Lee
I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink. (Ernest Hemingway)
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. View quote
George McGovern
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. View quote
George Orwell
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire. View quote
António Lobo Antunes
What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? View quote
Lin Yutang