“You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.”
Quotes about patriotism
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“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.”
“Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.”
“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”
“A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.”
“I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.”
“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.”
“Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.”
“Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.”
“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
“To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.”
“I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.”
“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?”
“It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.”
“Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.”
“The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.”
“The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.”
“It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.”
“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.”
“Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.”
“They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.”
“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.”
“The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.”
“We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.”