Top 100 Patriotism Is Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Patriotism Is

#1. Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

#2. Patriotism is an artificial, bordered "love" designed to create a distinct lack of love for those on the other side of the borders.

Adam Kokesh

#3. Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.

Max Eastman

#4. The concept of patriotism is not incompatible with that of humanity; on the contrary, let me state emphatically that he who best serves pacifism serves patriotism best. The nation is and can be no more than the vital basic unit of any international league.

Leon Bourgeois

#5. Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?

Marie Corelli

#6. For us, patriotism is the same as the love of humanity.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. Patriotism is the highest form of love

Thabiso Monkoe

#8. Patriotism is a menace to liberty.

Emma Goldman

#9. My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it ...

George Bernard Shaw

#11. Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

#12. Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#13. Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

Ron Paul

#14. Patriotism is about improving the lives of one's fellow citizens and improving one's country's contribution to the world. In the conservative moral hierarchy, our country is taken as simply better than other countries. This is jingoism, not true patriotism, which rests on progressive values.

George Lakoff

#15. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

George Bernard Shaw

#16. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious

Oscar Wilde

#17. They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

Bob Dylan

#18. Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph.

Charlie Chaplin

#19. In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.

Tom Hooper

#20. Patriotism is (like) loving your family whether it is good or bad, while always striving to make it better. Nationalism simply insists 'Hey my family is the best'..

Peter Jennings

#21. Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#22. If patriotism is a scoundrel's last refuge, then the concept of freedom is his first sales pitch.

James Rozoff

#23. Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

Emma Goldman

#24. Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

Jane Addams

#25. Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.

Umberto Eco

#26. Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

Bob Dylan

#27. Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
[My Uncle Sosthenes]

Guy De Maupassant

#28. Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

Michael Ignatieff

#29. Majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.

Mark Twain

#30. In some country patriotism is shown only for cricket. When it comes to responsibilities' they started blaming their own country, politician, people, and others. And ends up praising the western.

Vivek Thangaswamy

#31. Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#32. The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

Julian Barnes

#33. Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Denis Diderot

#34. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives .

Joseph Brodsky

#35. Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.

Ricardo Montalban

#36. Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and ennobles great and small alike.

Percy Dearmer

#37. Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Charles De Gaulle

#38. The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

Robert Walpole

#39. Patriotism is the religion of hell.

James Branch Cabell

#40. Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?

Wallace Shawn

#41. Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

Mick Jagger

#42. Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

Benjamin Rush

#43. True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice.

Robert McAfee Brown

#44. Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.

Gustave Herve

#45. Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

Simone Weil

#46. I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.

Jesse Ventura

#47. Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.

Tao Lin

#48. Must there always be "wars and rumors of war"? Accepting the inevitability of war is one thing, but glorifying war in the name of God and claiming that it reflects strong character and patriotism is quite another.

Ron Paul

#49. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson

#50. Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

George William Curtis

#51. Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

Richard Aldington

#52. Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.

Emma Goldman

#53. Patriotism is a love of country. If you love your country, you should love your countrymen and women. It doesn't mean you always agree with them or even like them. It is understanding that we have interwoven destiny.

Cory Booker

#54. Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

Helen Caldicott

#55. No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.

William Rainey Harper

#56. Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone (On the eve of her execution)

Edith Cavell

#57. When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born.

Laozi

#58. I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

#59. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Eugene V. Debs

#60. Stevenson told the legionnaires that patriotism "is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. . . . For it is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

Scott Farris

#61. True love is not a crock, but patriotism is.

Rebecca Wells

#62. I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty that had shaken my friend's voice arises: and how so real a love can become, too often, so foolish and vile a bigotry. Where does it go wrong?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#63. We live in a free country. While patriotism is important, liberty of thought and liberty of expression are even more important.

James Green

#64. We're being sold a brand new idea of patriotism. It never occurred to me that patriotism had to be advertised. Patriotism is something you deeply felt. You didn't have to wear it on your lapel or show it in your window or on a bumper sticker. That kind of patriotism does not appeal to me at all.

Sam Shepard

#65. Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

Jacob M. Appel

#66. Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Calvin Coolidge

#67. Liberals don't mind discussing who is more patriotic if patriotism is defined as redistributing income and vetoing the Pledge of Allegiance. Only if patriotism is defined as supporting America do they get testy and drone on about 'McCarthyism.'

Ann Coulter

#68. Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.

Ambrose Bierce

#69. Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.

Cory Booker

#70. Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.

Will Thomas

#71. Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan

#72. Patriotism is not dying for one's country, it is living for one's country. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it's better.

Agnes Macphail

#73. Real patriotism is realizing America sucks, but everywhere else is a thousand times worse.

Daniel Tosh

#74. Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

Henry Louis Gates

#75. patriotism is not enough.

Kristin Hannah

#76. In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.

Philip Caputo

#77. American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the constitution contains so many cracks through which the lawyers may creep.

Katharine Whitehorn

#78. On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes
and I see many of them in the audience here today
our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.

Barack Obama

#79. Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our
insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult ... Just as love for one
individual which excludes the love for others is not love,
love for one's country which is not part of one's love
for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

Erich Fromm

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

George Orwell

#81. If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether.

Ralph Barton Perry

#82. Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

#83. True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Abraham Lincoln

#84. Patriotism is the primary moral armor of our ground combatants.

Dick Couch

#85. Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.

Robert A. Heinlein

#86. To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, 'Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.'

Leo Tolstoy

#87. The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

Henry David Thoreau

#88. "Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others."

Robert Anton Wilson

#89. Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all means - by preaching, persuasion, contempt and ridicule.

Leo Tolstoy

#90. Patriotism is not endlessly bragging that out country is the best; rather it is wanting one's country to be the best that it can be and helping it to be that best, which is a very different matter.

Robert Stam

#91. But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.

Patrick O'Brian

#92. An informed patriotism is what we want.

Ronald Reagan

#93. Patriotism is merely deeply-rooted government brand loyalty.

Bryant McGill

#94. The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

Taylor Branch