There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Country ain't a title. It's a way of living and thinkin' you country don't mean you country — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
We live in a free country. While patriotism is important, liberty of thought and liberty of expression are even more important. — James Green Copy Share Image
When you have a prime minister who is corrupt, then you can be sure that a country cannot be anything else but… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
“[A] nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him.” — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes… — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“A nation always begins to rot first in its great cities, is indeed perhaps always rotting there, and is saved only by… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free… — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
I have made enough name for myself in India. I've got money. I've got fame. Let's try to go to a new… — Mallika Sherawat Copy Share Image
“Historical definition of a country's borders... "...here's where my murder geography ends and your murder geography begins, at least until I get… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man,… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“But the days of true heroism are over, when a citizen fought for his country like a Fabricius or a Washington, and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It's very refreshing. Afghans think they're… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
We must protect each other against the attacks of those self-appointed watchdogs of patriotism now abroad in the land who irresponsibly pin… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
“The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“A nation is only an individual multiplied. It makes plans and Circumstances comes and upsets them—or enlarges them. Some patriots throw the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“However, not only external expansion of state power is brought about by the ideology of nationalism. War as the natural outgrowth of… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
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