Quotes About Identity

Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.

No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.

If I want to transform patriotism then I do not proceed in the slightest against the fine fact of the nation but against the mixing up of the nation and the state.

I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .

Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.

I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that.

By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.

It made me feel good to know that we had such a great country like Canada where even a poor Indian from the Red Pheasant reserve could make it to the top.

I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.

America is a new country, and maybe patriotism helps Americans create unity, since it is a melting pot. But nationalism in Europe has a strong history, as you may know.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

It's only important to differentiate between patriotism and nationalism. I speak of enlightened patriotism.

A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.

Patriotism for the sake of is like choosing sides in a war based on the color of their uniforms.