Patriotism And Nationalism Quotes

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.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your
country, let men label you as they may.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

It’s only important to differentiate between patriotism and nationalism. I speak of enlightened patriotism.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.