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Quotes About Love

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
~ Henry James
A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.
~ Pierre Berton
Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.
~ Karl Kraus
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
~ Karl Kraus
What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?
~ Lin Yutang
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
~ Ronald Reagan
It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket.
~ Smedley Butler
No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.
~ Seneca the Younger
If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.
~ William Blum
The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.
~ Jacques Maritain
Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
~ William Ralph Inge
Patriotism means loving our country, not the government.
~ Mike Cloud
An informed patriotism is what we want.
~ Ronald Reagan
You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a stronger feeling.
~ Georg Baselitz
It's only important to differentiate between patriotism and nationalism. I speak of enlightened patriotism.
~ Charlotte Knobloch
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
~ Graham Greene
Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.
~ Amy Waldman, The Submission
Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
~ William Jennings Bryan
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.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
The flavor of patriotism depends upon its habitat.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
Actual patriotism has to do with loving a place enough to try and improve it.
~ Win Butler
Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.
~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Never be ashamed of your patriotism.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....
~ George Bernard Shaw