Needs Quote by Francis John McConnell

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us… The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to…

— Francis John McConnell

Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate…

— Chris Hedges

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

While patriotism is often lauded as an unquestionable value, the status of patriotism is a problem for many thoughtful people. It is particularly troublesome…

— Stephen Nathanson

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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 just loyalty to friends, people, families.

— Robert Santos

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

— George William Curtis

We have to define American patriotism as future-oriented.

— Ro Khanna

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

— Leo Tolstoy

For us, patriotism is the same as the love of humanity.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— George Orwell