Quotes About Nationalism

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism?

Sanitation should not be seen as a political tool, but should only be connected to patriotism (rashtrabhakti) and commitment to public health.

Wealth has never yet sacrificed itself on the altar of patriotism.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

I love my country, not my government.

Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.

I won't trade humanity for patriotism.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

Real patriotism is realizing America sucks, but everywhere else is a thousand times worse.

I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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.

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.