P Quotes
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“Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.”
Source: The Carolyn Wells Year Book of Old Favorites and New Fancies for 1909
“Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.”
“Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.”
Source: The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches
“Patriotism does not mean giving blind loyalty and a blank check to George W. Bush.”
“Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.”
Source: Free for All: Defending Liberty in America Today
“Patriotism doesn't mean blind mindless allegiance to any national, political or religious identity, patriotism means offering oneself in the service of others in one's society.”
“Patriotism has a lot to do with the success of the show”
“Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.”
“Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: A patriot after all, 1940-1941
“Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.”
“Patriotism has then, many faces. Those who would reject it entirely do not seem to have considered what will certainly step - has already begun to step - into its place. For a long time yet, or perhaps forever, nations will live in danger. Rulers must somehow nerve their subjects to defend them or at least to prepare for their defence. Where the sentiment of patriotism has been destroyed this can be done only by presenting every international conflict in a purely ethical light. If people will spend neither sweat nor blood for "their country" they must be made to feel that they are spending them for justice, or civilisation, or humanity. This is a step down, not up.”
Source: The Four Loves
“Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.”
“Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.”
“Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.”
Source: The kingdom of God: and peace essays
“Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to get for that people or State the greatest advantages and power that can be got - things which are obtainable only at the expense of the advantages and power of other peoples or States."”
“Patriotism is (like) loving your family whether it is good or bad, while always striving to make it better. Nationalism simply insists 'Hey my family is the best'.”
“Patriotism is a gateway drug to fascism. Tribalism is the gateway to racism.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“Patriotism is a joke in the UK.”
“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."
[My Uncle Sosthenes]”
Source: The Complete Short Stories Vol. 2 of 3
“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.”
Source: The Novels and Tales of Guy de Maupassant
“Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.”
“Patriotism is a menace to liberty.”
“Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.”
Source: In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan
“Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts.”
“Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.”
“Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.”
“Patriotism is a thing difficult to put into words. It is neither precisely an emotion nor an opinion, nor a mandate, but a state of mind -- a reflection of our own personal sense of worth, and respect for our roots. Love of country plays a part, but it's not merely love. Neither is it pride, although pride too is one of the ingredients.
Patriotism is a commitment to what is best inside us all. And it's a recognition of that wondrous common essence in our greater surroundings -- our school, team, city, state, our immediate society -- often ultimately delineated by our ethnic roots and borders... but not always.
Indeed, these border lines are so fluid... And we do not pay allegiance as much as we resonate with a shared spirit.
We all feel an undeniable bond with the land where we were born. And yet, if we leave it for another, we grow to feel a similar bond, often of a more complex nature. Both are forms of patriotism -- the first, involuntary, by birth, the second by choice.
Neither is less worthy than the other.
But one is earned.”
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.”
“Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea.”
“Patriotism is about a desire for progress, not a yearning for repetition.”
“Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.”
Source: Selected Writings
“Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.”
“Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.”
“Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.”
Source: Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1761-1792
“Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families. The Amor Patriae love of ones country is both a moral duty and a religious duty. It comprehends not only the love of our neighbors but of millions of our fellow creatures, not only of the present but of future generations. This virtue we find constitutes a part of the first characters of history.”
Source: Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1761-1792
“Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.”
“Patriotism is born out of pure love.”
“Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?”
Source: Essays
“Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.”
Source: Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings
“Patriotism is genocide, military is massacre.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“Patriotism is idolatry of the self.”
“Patriotism is loving your country unconditionally without including prominent personalities in the equation.”
“Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Patriotism is merely deeply-rooted government brand loyalty.”
Source: Voice of Reason
“Patriotism is more than a promise, more than a pledge and more than a national anthem but not less than being a good citizen of the nation”
“Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.”
“Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.”
“Patriotism is not 'my country right or wrong'; patriotism means loving the ideals for which America stands and having the courage to speak up when these ideals are distorted for personal or political gain. The American government was instituted to be the servant of the people, not our master.”
“Patriotism is not a flag in your DP, but to address the inequalities and injustices that linger within the country.”