(419 quotes found)
“Patriotism ruins history.”
Goethe
“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism”
George Washington
“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”
Charles de Gaulle
“Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country”
Calvin Coolidge
“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”
E. M. Forster
“Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.”
Dale Carnegie
“Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“America's state religion, [is] patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape.”
William Blum
“The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.”
David Hume
