P Quotes
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“Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”
“Patriotism is not dying for one's country, it is living for one's country. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it's better.”
“Patriotism is not endlessly bragging that out country is the best; rather it is wanting one's country to be the best that it can be and helping it to be that best, which is a very different matter.”
Source: Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism
“Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards any one.”
“Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda - and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.”
Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel
“Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.”
“Patriotism Is Not Taught To Learn But A Feeling One Owns Naturally.”
“Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.”
“Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.”
“Patriotism is primitiveness.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Patriotism is primitiveness. Patriotism is the antithesis of world peace - it is the antithesis of acceptance, integration and harmony - in short, patriotism is the ultimate crime against humanity. Let me show you how.
What's the image that comes to your mind, when you hear the word "patriotism"? A soldier with a gun - and where there is a soldier, there is an enemy. And who is that enemy? Usually it's just another soldier from the other side of the border - who has his own children, own spouse, own family at home, and is the symbol of patriotism in his own nation. Now, do you see the absurdity of the whole concept of patriotism! That's how sick this society is - where the only thing that distinguishes patriotism from terrorism is which side of the border bears your feet shackled - borders that are peddled by politicians to maintain control - not security, not peace, but control. Because a world without borders is a world without fear - and it's impossible to control people when they no longer fear each other.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.”
“Patriotism is pure politics”
“Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.”
“Patriotism" is that every child deserves a chance to live their own dream”
Source: A Bright New Morning: An American Story
“Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other.”
Source: Becoming Good Ancestors: How We Balance Nature, Community, and Technology
“Patriotism is the antithesis of world peace.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Patriotism is the art of serving your nation without losing sight of humanity.”
“Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.”
Source: Eeeee Eee Eeee: A Novel
“Patriotism is the courage to hold one's nation accountable to its highest ideals, starting with oneself.”
“Patriotism is the intelligent appreciation that one's own welfare is inseparably connected with the general welfare and that to prosper personally one must intelligently do his utmost to maintain the general prosperity.”
“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
“Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.”
“Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.”
“Patriotism is the love song we sing to the land that cradles our dreams, a melody of unity and devotion that echoes through the chapters of our shared history.”
“Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.”
Source: The Use and Misuse of Children
“Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism.”
Source: Becoming Good Ancestors: How We Balance Nature, Community, and Technology
“Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.”
“Patriotism is the primary moral armor of our ground combatants.”
Source: Sua Sponte: The Forging of a Modern American Ranger
“Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.”
“Patriotism is the religion of hell.”
“Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.”
“Patriotism is the ultimate crime against humanity.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.”
“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”
“Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?”
“Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.”
Source: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
“Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.”
“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”
“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”
“Patriotism, like self-interest, are the most common diseases that are impossible to cure in man.”
“Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult.”
“Patriotism means loving our country, not the government.”
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.”
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.”
“Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call “Nationalist Fundamentalism”, which is as dangerous as “Religious Fundamentalism”.”
Source: I Am The Thread: My Mission