05-06-2010, 01:54 AM
This one is for the Northern Illinois Patriots - some great thinkers on patriotism... some great quotes...
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Pablo Casals
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Earl Warren
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayana
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
George William Curtis
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale Carnegie
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Diogenes
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Eugene V. Debs
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James A. Baldwin
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Voltaire
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Guy de Maupassant
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
George Jean Nathan
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Pablo Casals
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Earl Warren
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayana
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
George William Curtis
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale Carnegie
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Diogenes
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Eugene V. Debs
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James A. Baldwin
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Voltaire
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Guy de Maupassant
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
George Jean Nathan
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain