Fitness Quote by Emma Goldman

Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that…

— Emma Goldman

“What, then, is patriotism? “Patriotism, sir, is the last resort of scoundrels,” said Dr. Johnson. Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our times, defines…

— Emma Goldman

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

— Denis Diderot

Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined…

— Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

— Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment…

— Anonymous

By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to be the…

— George Orwell

“In war-time the word patriotism means suppression of truth.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country.

— Edward Snowden

“What we call patriotism, in other words, is a calculable force which, released by a predictable situation, will animate man in a manner no…

— Robert Ardrey