Patriotism Quotes

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

~ Clarence Darrow

Patriotism, whether it is of the Western kind, or of the Eastern kind, is the same, a poison in human beings that is really distorting thought. So patriotism is a disease, and when you begin to realize, become aware that it is a disease, then you will see how your mind is reacting to that disease. When, in time of war, the whole world talks of patriotism, you will know the falseness of it, and therefore you will act as a true human being

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

I like the fact that my compatriots have such vacant and protruding eyes. They fill me with virtuous pride. You can imagine what eyes are like (in the capitalist world). ...such eyes look at you with distrust, reflecting constant worry and torment. That's what they're like in the land of ready cash.How different from the eyes of my people! Their steady stare is completely devoid of all tension. They harbor no thought - but what power! What spiritual power! Such eyes would not sell you. They couldn't sell anything or buy anything. You could spit in the eyes, and they’d call it God's (divine) dew...

~ Venedikt Erofeev

To criticize one's country is to do it a service... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism--a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar rituals and national adulation.

~ J. William Fulbright (Senator)

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith.

~ J. William Fulbright (Senator)

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship. So when my friends Joel and Stephen and I play hooky from our jobs in the middle of the afternoon to play Pop-A-Shot in a room full of children, I like to think we are not procrastinators; we are patriots pursuing happiness.

~ Sarah Vowell

Grant made the perfect candidate, a war hero with indistinct views on most political issues.

~ H.w. Brands

The sense of national emergency engendered by war transforms the destruction of dissident opinion into patriotism.

~ Thomas Szasz

The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

In general, those who resort to mass murder on a collective scale always put forward the justification that they acted on behalf of the nation.

~ Taner Akçam

It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Now that a full flood of music has swept over our country, let Nikhil practise his scales, while we rouse the land with our cracked voices[.]

~ Rabindranath Tagore

The soldier doesn’t usually act on his own initiative, he doesn’t harbour feelings of hatred or resentment or jealousy, he isn’t motivated by long-held desires or personal ambition; the only motivating force is a vague, rhetorical, empty patriotism, for those soldiers, that is, who are moved by such feelings or allow themselves to be convinced.

~ Javier Marías

The love we have for our native land would be good and praiseworthy if it did not degenerate, as we see it does everywhere, into vanity, the spirit of predominance, acquisitiveness, hate, envy, nationalism, and militarism

~ Henri Barbusse

...patriotism has become a narrow offensive sentiment which as long as it lives will maintain war and exhaust the world

~ Henri Barbusse

People tell me that I should become a politician but I say no I want to do something good for the nation.

~ Amit Abraham

The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.

~ Sydney J. Harris

They loved their country largely because they controlled it.

~ Tom Clancy

Most people are surprised to hear how they really sound, as the American media uses the call of the red-tailed hawk when showing an eagle. They don’t think the eagle sounds regal enough. And so we lie to ourselves about the very identity of our national icon . . .

~ Brandon Sanderson

I’ve never really understood national pride, or even ethnic pride. It should be more about pride at being a human and living on this planet with fellow humans surely, let’s widen the parameters a bit

~ Robert Breeze

I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Our country is the only one that truly permits you to speak bad of your country, so you really shouldn’t say anything bad about it.

~ James Rozoff

A true patriot never abandons his country at the hour of need.

~ Auliq Ice

I've lived the literal meaning of the land of the free and hone of the brave. It's not corny for me. I feel it in my heart. I feel it in my chest. Even at a ball game, when someone talks during the anthem or doesn't take off his hat, it pisses me off. I'm not one to be quiet about it either.

~ Chris Kyle

A true leader sticks up for his followers.

~ Auliq Ice

Schools and universities are (as in a body) the noble and vital parts, which being vigorous and sound send good blood and active spirits into the veins and arteries, which cause health and strength; or, if feeble or ill-affected, corrupt all the vital parts; whereupon grow diseases, and in the end, death itself.

~ Thomas Hughes

He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword ... unless he's a general.

~ Brian Spellman

Spare the rod and spoil the Memorial Day rotisserie.

~ Brian Spellman

The nationalism of a small nation can, with treacherous ease, become detached from its roots in what is noble and human. It then become pitiful, making the nation appear smaller rather than greater. It is the same with nations as with individuals; while trying to draw attention to the inadequacies of others, people all too often reveal their own.

~ Vasily Grossman

Recognize at all times the paramount right of your Country to your most devoted services, whether she treat you ill or well, and never let selfish views or interests predominate over the duties of patriotism.

~ Henry Clay

I am not SURE whether people have watched DID show from ZEE TV or not, Its big ambiguity whether they have really liked Teriya Magar's performance or of anyone else. But I'm SURE that they have voted Teriya and even begged other fellows to vote her just because she IS NEPALI.This way patriotism rocks and talent is sucked........

~ Anup Joshi

C is for colonies Rightly we boastthat of all the great nationsGreat Britain has most!

~ Mrs. Ernest Ames

The Pledge of Allegiance to the flag was the origin of the Nazi salute and Nazi behavior; and the swastika, although an ancient symbol, was also used to represent crossed 'S' letters for 'socialism' under the National Socialist German Workers Party.

~ Rex Curry

In time of war, under the banner of an enemy recognisable as such, a foreigner from a camp outside the lines, the imperial idea grew strong in confidence and temper. The British democracy rallied to the call of a strong leadership, and it was not just in rhetorical enthusiasm but with considerable personal satisfaction that Churchill hailed the year 1940-1 as the British people's 'finest hour'. He, with other imperialists, was delighted by the fact that, when it came to the sticking-place, it was the old-fashioned loyalty of the reactionary British Empire to all that was symbolised by allegiance to Crown and country that came forward to save European civilisation from utter overthrow by German tyranny...The days of showing the flag—even for only a momentary glimpse, such as wall that inhabitants of Greece and Crete and Dieppe had of it—had returned. The Empire was the Empire once more, and to 10, Downing Street returned that imperial control that two generations of Dominion opinion had combined to condemn as sinister.

~ A.p. Thornton

I am not SURE whether people have watched DID show from ZEE TV or not, Its big ambiguity that they have really liked Teriya Magar's performance or of anyone else. But I'm SURE that they have voted Teriya and even begged others fellows to vote her.This way patriotism rocks and talent is sucked........- Anup Joshi

~ Anup Joshi

It's pathetic how a man can stand by and do nothing as a whole nation cleans out the garbage and makes itself great-Hans Junior

~ Markus Zusak

The only appropriate war rhetoric is more rhetoric that calls our enemies spirits and people with flesh the victims of this war. Satan wants us to fight with one another, and I understand that some evil must be restrained, but our war, the war of the ones who believe in Jesus, is a war unseen. If we could muster a portion of the patriotism we feel toward our earthly nations into patriotism and bravery in concert with the kingdom of God, the enemy would take fewer casualties.

~ Donald Miller

We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.

~ Al Franken

Why is it that those who want to destroy everything good about their country are the quickest to waive the national flag?

~ Ken Follett

[Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville