No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. -- Barbara Ehrenreich

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. -- Albert Einstein Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! -- Albert Einstein

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury. -- William Lloyd Garrison

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
-- Charles de Gaulle

Patriotism ruins history.
-- Johann von Goethe

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit. -- Emma Goldman

 

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