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Albert Einstein

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

by Albert Einstein (Physicist, German , born in 1879) keywords: disease, infantile, mankind, measles , nationalism

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

by Nathan Hale (Revolutionary, American , born in 1755) keywords: country, life, lose, only , regret

William Ralph Inge

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

by William Ralph Inge (Clergyman, English , born in 1860) keywords: ancestry, common, delusion, hatred, nation, neighbours, society , united

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

by John F. Kennedy (President, American , born in 1917) keywords: americans, ask, country, fellow , your

Guy de Maupassant

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

by Guy de Maupassant (Writer, French , born in 1850) keywords: egg, hatched, kind, patriotism, religion, wars , which

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

by George Jean Nathan (Editor, American , born in 1882) keywords: above, arbitrary, estate, often, patriotism, principles, real , veneration

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

by Bob Riley (Politician , American) keywords: believed, long, patriotism, pinnacle , sacrifice

Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

by Bertrand Russell (Philosopher, British , born in 1872) keywords: kill, killed, patriotism, reasons, trivial , willingness

George Santayana

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

by George Santayana (Philosopher, American , born in 1970) keywords: controlled, dreadful, geography, indignity, seems , soul

George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

by George Bernard Shaw (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1856) keywords: because, born, conviction, country, others, patriotism, superior, were , your

George Bernard Shaw

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

by George Bernard Shaw (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1856) keywords: human, knock, never, out, patriotism, quiet, race, till , world

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

by William Shenstone (Poet, English , born in 1714) keywords: bear, country, foreign, increasing, love, means, native, our, proper, reside, some , time

Adlai E. Stevenson

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

by Adlai E. Stevenson (Politician, American , born in 1970) keywords: dedication, emotion, frenzied, lifetime, outbursts, patriotism, short, steady , tranquil

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.

by Leo Tolstoy (Novelist, Russian , born in 1828) keywords: cruel, founded, greater, more, patriotism, power, state, suffering, sum, upon, which , wrong

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

by Mark Twain (Author, American , born in 1970) keywords: country, deserves, government, patriotism, supporting, time , your

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

by Voltaire (Writer, French , born in 1970) keywords: become, enemy, good, lamentable, mankind, must, patriot , rest

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

by Earl Warren (Judge, American , born in 1891) keywords: failure, found, imperatives, internationalism, most, our, paradox, recognize, time , tragic

We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.

by Roger Wicker (Politician, American , born in 1951) keywords: american, assistance, foreign, humanitarian , national

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

by Oscar Wilde (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: patriotism, vicious , virtue

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