Top 65 Patriotism Nationalism Quotes
#1. Patriotism, nationalism,' she said impatiently. 'Call it what you wish. Mine the only flag, mine the only way. All else is inferior, trample it underfoot. Despise it, detest it.
Ausma Zehanat Khan
#2. The war cured me of all the "isms", he said. 'Nazism, communism, socialism, patriotism, nationalism, capitalism. I have seen them all. The problem is human nature. People. Shit always floats to the top.
Magda Szubanski
#3. Culture makes lies plausible through exposure to time. It makes prejudice seem like physics intergenerationally. It is therefore the most dangerous opponent of philosophy, because it feels the most credible to the average person.
Stefan Molyneux
#4. I don't like the showy nationalism - a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag - that doesn't matter to me. The way to show your patriotism and commitment is to go and support or play for your team.
Gary Speed
#5. People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one
Banksy
#6. Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Charles De Gaulle
#7. IT'S NOT RACIST
TO BE PROUD
OF YOUR COUNTRY!'
no, but it is fucking
stupid
to think it makes
you a better man.
Andy Carrington
#8. How long have you been away from the country?" Laruja asked Ibarra.
"Almost seven years."
"Then you have probably forgotten all about it."
"Quite the contrary. Even if my country does seem to have forgotten me, I have always thought about it.
Jose Rizal
#9. All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers ... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
Francois Fenelon
#10. What is there in this big wide world for a man to talk about with certainty besides his homeland, home and family?
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#12. The recognition of a distinct 'national identity' among members of the Body of Christ can keep before us our ties with Christians who live under different secular governments, with whom we have bonds that transcend and override our commitments to governments and groups outside the church.
Richard J. Mouw
#14. Unless we can restore what George Orwell called patriotism as opposed to nationalism, we will see the rise of the far right, as is happening already in Europe.
Jonathan Sacks
#15. It's only important to differentiate between patriotism and nationalism. I speak of enlightened patriotism.
Charlotte Knobloch
#16. 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
#17. Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.
Jacob M. Appel
#18. 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
#19. There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.
Oscar Straus
#20. Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.
Karl Kraus
#21. African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.
Julius Nyerere
#22. 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 Akcam
#23. Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land.
Lester B. Pearson
#25. That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ...
Elizabeth Gaskell
#26. Call it 'nationalism' when you affix a flag to your car, and leave the word 'patriotism' for your efforts to make this country a kinder, more egalitarian place, and one that is less dangerous to the rest of the world.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#27. Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar
Marshall McLuhan
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. If there is no love for others, love of country is just a slogan.
T.F. Hodge
#31. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious
Oscar Wilde
#32. I want to be proud of this country [the USA], but when aspects of our policy don't align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them. Being complicit because it's the home team is nationalism, not patriotism.
Shepard Fairey
#33. Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it ...
George Bernard Shaw
#34. A true patriot never abandons his country at the hour of need.
Auliq Ice
#35. Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and narcissistic individuals.
Bryant McGill
#36. Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause more wars and more death and more destruction to the soul and to human life than anything else.
Oliver Stone
#37. ABYSS
Our country lives
Among the dead
And dies among the living
Sometimes.
Visar Zhiti
#38. 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
#39. C" is for colonies
Rightly we boast
that of all the great nations
Great Britain has most!
Mrs. Ernest Ames
#40. Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death and suffering. If national boundaries should not be obstacles to trade-we call it globalization-should they also not be obstacles to compassion and generosity?
Howard Zinn
#41. The antisemites who called themselves patriots introduced that new species of national feeling which consists primarily in a complete whitewash of one's own people and a sweeping condemnation of all others.
Hannah Arendt
#42. A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.
Pierre Berton
#43. No nation can truly develop unless fanaticism, primitive superstitions and metaphysical non-sense are eradicated.
Abhijit Naskar
#44. Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
Theodore Roosevelt
#46. 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
#47. I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.
Rosika Schwimmer
#48. 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
#49. I am against nationalism, and I am against patriotism. They are both the dark side. It is time not simply to redefine a kinder-and-gentler patriotism, but to sweep away the notion and acknowledge it as morally, politically, and intellectually bankrupt. It is time to scrap patriotism.
Robert Jensen
#50. I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family.
Sukarno
#51. One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#52. Patriotism can flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who scorns the homelands of others.
Johannes Rau
#53. In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst human vice, collective egotism.
W. H. Auden
#54. Patriotism is wanting what is best for your country. Nationalism is thinking your country is best, no matter what it does.
Sydney J. Harris
#55. There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.
Todd Gitlin
#56. There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
Howard Zinn
#57. Ten responsible and rational young citizens are sufficient to clean up the mess of a thousand old superstitious citizens.
Abhijit Naskar
#58. The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.
Barbara Kingsolver
#61. 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
#62. He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals
Henry Miller
#63. 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.
Arthur C. Clarke
#64. I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism, like the trade-names for tooth-pastes which are all exactly alike except for the flavouring.
Albert Jay Nock
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