Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

George M. Cohan

Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.

Richard Aldington

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

John Avlon

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

Carolyn Wells

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

Indira Gandhi

We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

Michael Ignatieff

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

Jeb Bush

some spirit of patriotism rather than partisanship will prevail.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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.

Thorstein Veblen

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

Todd Gitlin

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

Steve Allen

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.

Ward Churchill

As to those in the World Trade Center...Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. ...If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.

Henry David Thoreau

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

H. L. Mencken

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

Huey Newton

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

Howard Zinn

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

George Peppard

Patriotism has a lot to do with the success of the show

Henry Louis Gates

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

Janeane Garofalo

How is it that this debate has been twisted on its head, that somehow those that advocate peace and diplomacy are anti-American?

Joseph Smith, Jr.

The flavor of patriotism depends upon its habitat.

James Branch Cabell

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

Ho Chi Minh

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Henry Clay

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Patriotism ruins history.

Malcolm X

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Emma Goldman

Patriotism is a menace to liberty.

Leo Tolstoy

By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

Karl Kraus

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