Patriotism Quotes - Page 3

A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.

I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

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.

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

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.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German - and to the shame of the German nation.

Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

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.

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?