Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles -- George Nathan
Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others. - Emma Goldman I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland. -- G.C. Lichtenberg, 1799 In time of war the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers. -- August Babel 1870 My patriotism stops short of my stomach -- Bismarck refusing a glass of German champagne Patriotism is the conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it -- George B. Shaw Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious --Oscar Wilde Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons -- Bertrand Russell The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders... All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism. --Hermann Goering To me it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography -- George Santayanna You'll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of it. -- George B. Shaw In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. -- Mark Twain
