Quotes About Politics

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Patriotism means loving our country, not the government.

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.

What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.

I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism.

No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

I never questioned Barack Obama's patriotism.

Patriotism is a joke in the UK.

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

Democrats can give us wars, you know? Democrats can play the false patriotism card.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious

People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one

The French have a passion for revolution but an abhorrence of change.

Sorry, but when anyone self-applies the label of "patriot" I gag a little.

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.

Statism is a mental disorder, much akin to Stockholm Syndrome.

People tell me that I should become a politician but I say no I want to do something good for the nation.

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.