3 December 2020 Sinclair Lewis Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
3 December 2020 Earl Warren The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
3 December 2020 Dominique de Villepin I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.
3 December 2020 Jack Bowman But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don’t have something that I want to die for – anymore.
3 December 2020 Adlai Stevenson Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
3 December 2020 Malcom X You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it.
3 December 2020 Charles Edward Montague Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.
3 December 2020 Robert Walpole The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!
3 December 2020 Charles de Gaulle Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
3 December 2020 Eugene V. Debs I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
3 December 2020 Will Thomas 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.
3 December 2020 George Jean Nathan Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
3 December 2020 Malcolm Turnbull My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia… a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
3 December 2020 Malcolm X You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal 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?
3 December 2020 Friedrich Durrenmatt We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
3 December 2020 Kjell Magne Bondevik Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
3 December 2020 John Avlon One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.
