Patriotism has, like other religions whose object of worship is little open to question, its extreme sensitiveness, it’s fanatical intolerance. The ceremonial observances are enforced with zealotry, and those who blaspheme with unassenting presence are likely to be thrown out bodily or confined in jail.
Patriotism Quotes
We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
It is now the moment when… we pause… to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
This is not how a great nation should debate issues of war and peace. To question people’s patriotism for simply raising questions about how a war is to be fought and won – to say that anybody who doesn’t support the president’s particular policy on national security is against national security – is not only […]
I don’t set up for being a cosmopolite, which to any mind signifies being polite to every country except your own.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!
There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
