Patriotism is when love of your own people

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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 is an instant reaction

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Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
Mick Jagger

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism

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It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke

It is the patriotic duty of every man

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It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
Alfred Adler

True patriotism hates injustice

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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity

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

Patriotism is easy to understand in America

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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration

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

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS

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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
Dave Barry

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion

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

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism

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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.
Leo Tolstoy

Patriotism is the willingness to kill

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

Can anything be stupider than that a man

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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal

Each nation feels superior to other nations

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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale Carnegie

It is lamentable

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

You'll never have a quiet world

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