The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? Pablo Casals quotes The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy quotes You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. Malcolm X quotes Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. Charles de Gaulle quotes One of the great attractions of patriotism it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. Aldous Huxley quotes Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell quotes |