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.
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.
Although the Georgian nationalists do not like Stalin, they have every reason to be thankful to him.
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
Sadly, there is a fine line between patriotism and paranoia.
Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.
A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.