Top 37 Quotes About Patriotism And Religion
#1. No true power can be founded among men which does not depend upon the free union of their inclinations; and patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of the body politic to one end.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#2. We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.
E.W. Howe
#3. Patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of a body politic to one end.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#4. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.
George Washington
#5. The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.
C.S. Lewis
#6. Patriotism was a fool's religion, a crude social bonding device that defeated itself by inciting violence and inviting reprisal.
Crawford Kilian
#7. Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion.
W. C. Brownell
#8. Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.
Gustave Herve
#9. America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.
William Blum
#11. He must have had this Wall Street gentry in mind, or at least their prototypes, for in every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people.
Eugene V. Debs
#12. 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
#13. Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
[My Uncle Sosthenes]
Guy De Maupassant
#14. Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.
John Haynes Holmes
#15. I am blessed to live in a democracy, not a totalitarian state. But the democracy I cherish is constantly threatened by a brand of politics that clothes avarice and the arrogance of power in patriotic and religious garb.
Parker J. Palmer
#16. Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.
Stefan Molyneux
#17. I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.
Ambrose Bierce
#18. The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.
William Hazlitt
#19. When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
David Starr Jordan
#20. How could you be so naive as to tell a human being the truth? Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing. If you wish to gain the favor of the two-legged ilk, you must learn to fabricate as wholeheartedly as they do.
Tom Robbins
#21. In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.
(Canton, OH, Anti-War Speech, June 16, 1918)
Eugene V. Debs
#22. Destruction, best expressed in this age in which I write as terrorism, is truly there for its own sake, but the pretense of religion or secular patriotism converts the destructive into the speciously creative.
Anthony Burgess
#23. Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
O. Henry
#24. Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing.
Tom Robbins
#25. Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism.
Herman Melville
#26. [Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#27. Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
Kjell Magne Bondevik
#29. Some Christians worried about a faith that was so embracing as to be meaningless, that exalted not the Almighty so much as the American way of life. When civil religion bleached the challenge from faith and left behind a watery patriotism, there was room for concern.
Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy
#30. 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
#31. One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#32. Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.
Karl Kraus
#33. Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.
Mark Twain
#34. My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.
Mahatma Gandhi
#36. In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
George J. Mitchell
#37. There are so many things to exploit man, but religion and patriotism are at the top of the list.
Tarif Naaz
