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“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.”
George Bernard Shaw
“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”
“Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy”
“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
Samuel Johnson
“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.”
Guy de Maupassant
“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Erma Bombeck
“The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?”
Pablo Casals
“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
“Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen”
Ambrose Bierce
“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”
Bertrand Russell
