Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. – Guy de Maupassant
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. – Charles de Gaulle
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? – Blaise Pascal, quoted by Tolstoy in Bethink Yourselves
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. – Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. – John F. Kennedy
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. – Mark Twain
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. – Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. – George Bernard Shaw
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. – Clarence Darrow
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars. – Dale Carnegie
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. – George Orwell
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. – Samuel Johnson
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. – Howard Zinn
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. – Barbara Ehrenreich
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. – Leo Tolstoy
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. – Diogenes
Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy. – Ann Coulter
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. – Edith Cavell
Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful. – Francis Ford Coppola
I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws? – Bill Maher
