Top 20 Quotes About Blind Patriotism

#1. Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

Ambrose Bierce

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#2. The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George ... Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security.

Ron Paul

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#3. Diva has a negative connotation.

Glenn Close

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#4. If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.

William Blum

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#5. Patriotism does not mean giving blind loyalty and a blank check to George W. Bush.

Jello Biafra

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#6. Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda - and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.

John Irving

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#7. I want to caution that we must not confuse patriotism with blind endorsement of bad policies.

Mark Hatfield

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#8. The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher standard.

George S. McGovern

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#9. Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.

Terry Tempest Williams

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#10. Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism.

Rocky Anderson

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#11. You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Malcolm X

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#12. She shook her head and almost laughed. 'My reaction was a little stronger than 'crap,' Rose. Do you have any idea what you've done?

Richelle Mead

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#13. If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

Robert Duncan

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#14. There are these two kinds of patriotism. There's blind patriotism, unflagging patriotism. And then there's the patriotism that says I live in a democracy and it's very important for the health and the life of this democracy that it get better all the time, not get worse.

Norman Mailer

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#15. A "Hybrid" mind with both creativity and analytics can better adapt to a hybrid world.

Pearl Zhu

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#16. You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

Malcolm X

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#17. There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.

Harry Truman

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#18. In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost ... especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking backwards to cover the slightest nakedness of our forefathers.

Col. Thomas Aspinwall

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#19. 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

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#20. The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.

Terry Eagleton

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