3 December 2020 Francis John McConnell We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
3 December 2020 David Starr Jordan When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
3 December 2020 Michael Mandelbaum The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America’s past success are still here to be tapped.
3 December 2020 Clarence Darrow True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
3 December 2020 Todd Gitlin There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.
3 December 2020 Eric Hobsbawm It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they’re not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.
3 December 2020 John Bolton There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That’s not the call of patriotism.
3 December 2020 Voltaire It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
3 December 2020 Bob Dylan I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
3 December 2020 Howard Thurman During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
3 December 2020 George Orwell Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
3 December 2020 George William Curtis A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
3 December 2020 Bill Maher 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?
3 December 2020 Robert Walpole Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.
3 December 2020 Bruno Bauer The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.
3 December 2020 William Blum America’s state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that ‘treason’ is morally worse than murder or rape.
3 December 2020 Vic Snyder Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.
3 December 2020 George Galloway I’m an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
3 December 2020 Parker Stevenson I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we’d all pull together.
3 December 2020 Janet Suzman Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.
3 December 2020 William Ralph Inge A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
3 December 2020 Bruce Springsteen There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
3 December 2020 Barbara Ehrenreich No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
3 December 2020 Robert Jackson 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.
3 December 2020 Adam Carolla Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.
