Patriotism Quotes

I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

Eugene V. Debs

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

Malcolm X

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind

Thomas Jefferson

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Albert Camus

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

Howard Thurman

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

David Hume

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Ho Chi Minh

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.

Robert Jackson

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

Alfred Adler

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

Mick Jagger

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

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

Bernadine Dohrn

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

Voltaire

Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and obsolete virtue; but just at present the man who loves other countries as much as he does his own is quite as noxious a member of society as the man who loves other women as much as he loves his wife. Love of country is an elemental virtue, like love of home.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Mark Twain

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Edmund Burke

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

Steve Allen