Quotes About Nationalism

I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

Patriotism means loving our country, not the government.

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

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

Patriotism does not mean giving blind loyalty and a blank check to George W. Bush.

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.

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel's united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.

That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.

Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

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.

Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.

An informed patriotism is what we want.

[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

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

Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.

If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy.

I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.