Patriotism Quotes and Sayings
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
- Charles de Gaulle
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
- Huey P. Newton
You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
- Malcolm X
Patriotism is just loyalty to friends, people, families.
- Robert Santos
Patriotism is racism for the modern era.
- Michel Templet
Patriotism is not enough, there must be no hatred or bitterness for anyone.
- Florence Nightingale
Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.
- Tao Lin
Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.
- Dr. Helen Caldicott
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
- Bertrand Russell
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.
- Julian Barnes
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious.
~ Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
~ Bertrand Russell
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
- Thomas Paine
Patriotism is just loyalty to friends, people, families.
- Robert Santos
You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
- George Bernard Shaw
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
- Edward Abbey
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
- Barack Obama
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
- Thomas Paine