Clean Quote by Charles Edward Montague

Patriotism is something I wear in my heart not on my head.

— Nasser Hussain

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

— Leo Tolstoy

There are these two kinds of patriotism. There's blind patriotism, unflagging patriotism. And then there's the patriotism that says I live in a democracy…

— Norman Mailer

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

— Mark Twain

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

— Bertrand Russell

Granted, patriotism is not a tonic that can be forced down people's throats.

— Naseeruddin Shah

Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't…

— Max Eastman

Patriotism cannot be instilled inside anybody, it just happens to be there. And it can rise above any notion, any emotion.

— Boney Kapoor

I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something…

— Anonymous

Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. When these cries of patriotism drown out any…

— Chelsea Manning

Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

— Ambrose Bierce