Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them! – Albert Einstein
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. – George Santayana
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. – William Shenstone
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. – Bertrand Russell
Do not… regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo? – Adlai Stevenson
Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting. – S.I. Hayakawa
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. – George Jean Nathan
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. – George Bernard Shaw
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. – William R. Inge
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. – Albert Einstein, The World As I See It, 1934
To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family. – Buddha
I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family. – Rosika Schwimmer
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. – Arthur C. Clarke
Patriotism knows neither latitude nor longitude. It is not climatic. – E.A. Storrs
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. – Montesquieu
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world. – Socrates
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. – Earl Warren
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. – Richard Aldington
Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious. – Oscar Wilde
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. – Eugene V. Debs
