Quotes About Nationalism

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

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

The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister.

There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.

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

Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.

I want to caution that we must not confuse patriotism with blind endorsement of bad policies.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

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.

When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

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.

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

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.

No one is patriotic about taxes.