Quotes with patriotism

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  • Samuel Johnson Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bertrand Russell Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Bolingbroke Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
    Henry Bolingbroke
    British politician (1678 - 1751)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • George Orwell The ''Communism'' of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bernardine Dohrn The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
    Bernardine Dohrn
    American law professor and activist
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  • David Lloyd George The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • Bruce Springsteen There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Bernard Shaw You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
    O'Flaherty V.C. (1919)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Malcolm X You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • George William Curtis 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
    American journalist (1824 - 1892)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Denis Diderot Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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