Patriotism Quotes
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Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.
George Washington -
Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in the color's of patriotism.
Albert Einstein
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Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.
Will Thomas (novelist) -
Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
Francis John McConnell -
PATRIOTISM. 1) The inability to distinguish between the government and one's 'country'; 2) A highly praiseworthy virtue characterized by the desire to dominate and kill; 3) A feeling of exultation experienced when contemplating heaps of charred 'enemy' corpses; 4) The first, last, and perennial refuge of scoundrels.
Chaz Bufe -
Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the exploitability of feelings, whoever might be the one exploiting them. It never ends. It's a permanent theme. Whether the state exploits patriotism, or whether in a couple relationship, one partner destroys the other.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder -
We have intelligence, and virtue, and patriotism. All that is required is to cultivate and perpetuate these.
Alexander H. Stephens
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Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
Henry Louis Gates -
Patriotism alone is not enough.
Edith Cavell -
The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.
William Rainey Harper -
Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.
William Lloyd Garrison -
The U.S. public is depoliticised, poorly informed on foreign affairs... and strongly patriotic in the face of a struggle with another Hitler. Even though the public is normally averse to war, even with modest propaganda efforts... the public can be quickly transformed into enthusiastic supporters of war.
Edward S. Herman
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Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done and suffered to make his country what it is? There is room, plenty of room, for proper pride of land and birth. What I inveigh against is a cursed spirit of intolerance, conceived in distrust and bred in ignorance, that makes the mental attitude perennially antagonistic, even bitterly antagonistic, to everything foreign, that subordinates everywhere the race to the nation, forgetting the higher claims of human brotherhood.
William Osler -
The word patriotism, or its equivalents and derivations, is upon everyone's lips at the present time. It is a magic word which is thought by most people to cover any multitude of sins. To be patriotic in whatever cause is tantamount to being virtuous, while no worse charge can be brought against a man in popular estimation than to say he is unpatriotic.
Ernest Belfort Bax -
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
Max Lerner -
Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult.
Ernest Belfort Bax -
Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other.
David Ehrenfeld -
What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Coco Chanel
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The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .
George Washington -
My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington -
Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Liberty, equality, fraternity. Watchword of French Revolution. And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.
Charles Fitzgeoffrey