Patriotism Quotes
Samia Suluhu Hassan, George Washington, George Orwell, Albert Einstein and Daniel Webster lead the list. The sourced lines are mostly sceptical. Oscar Wilde, in 1894, calls patriotism the vice of nations. Russell, in Has Man a Future? (1962), notes that patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for it. Mark Twain’s notebook, published in 1935, has a passage on the patriot being a scarce, brave, hated and scorned man at the start of a change, whose place the timid join once his cause succeeds.
Three entries are flagged misattributed. A line on preserving the life of citizens, credited to Seneca, comes from the Roman tragedy Octavia, which modern scholarship generally does not give to him. A passage about killing the national pride of one generation is credited to Lavrentiy Beria. A line separating patriotism from nationalism is credited to Samuel Johnson.
That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.
True Patriotism, it seems to me, is based on tolerance and a large measure of humility.
“Work with patriotism, in line with the oath you took before God.”
Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. … It is a pagan virtue.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
We talk a great deal about patriotism. What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times?
To anticipate & prevent disastrous contingencies would be the part of wisdom & patriotism.