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Abraham Lincoln
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Adlai Stevenson
Patriotism... is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Albert Einstein
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein, The World As I See It, 1934
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Arthur C. Clarke
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.
Author Unknown
If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.
Baha'u'llah
It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
Bertrand Russell
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Blaise Pascal, quoted by Tolstoy in Bethink Yourselves
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Buddha
To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.
Calvin Coolidge
Patriotism is easy to understand in America - it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Charles de Gaulle
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Earl Warren
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Eugene V. Debs
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Francis John McConnell
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations.
George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Jean Nathan
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
George Meredith, Beauchamp's Career
The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
George Santayana
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
 
 
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