Patriotism Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its…

— Leo Tolstoy

Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

— Leo Tolstoy

To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone…

— Leo Tolstoy

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions…

— Leo Tolstoy

To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is…

— Leo Tolstoy

It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it…

— Leo Tolstoy

Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all…

— Leo Tolstoy

Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is…

— Leo Tolstoy

By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but…

— Leo Tolstoy

But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only…

— Leo Tolstoy

The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . .…

— Leo Tolstoy

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and…

— Leo Tolstoy

All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the…

— Leo Tolstoy

Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be…

— Leo Tolstoy

Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a…

— Leo Tolstoy

If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.…

— Leo Tolstoy

In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of…

— Leo Tolstoy

A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in…

— Leo Tolstoy