Queen Elizabeth II
Monarch
"True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others."
Patriotism quotes
Patriotism
233 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Huey Newton
Activist
"There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people."
Robert Anton Wilson
Author, Philosopher
""Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others.""
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power."
Clara Barton
Nurse, Activist
"The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins."
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"The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history."
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"Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism."
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"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography."
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"Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence."
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"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."
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"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see."
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"For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language."
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"Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence."
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"I have the people behind me and the people are my strength."
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"The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously."
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"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy."
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"Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself."
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"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy."
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"There will be no prison which can hold our movement down."
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"Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
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"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind."
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"Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic"
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"Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language."
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"You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society."
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"Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized."
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