Failure Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa

“[Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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

— Siegfried Sassoon

“Patriotism, currently, is nothing but the deadly evolution of narrow minded politics which has distorted language.”

— Nilantha Ilangamuwa

“I am no Patriot for I try to breathe in with the steadfast belief that my country is the Earth and my religion is…

— K. Hari Kumar

“In America, disagreement with the policies of the government does not necessitate a lack of patriotism!”

— Senator Mitchell

“Patriotism is about a desire for progress, not a yearning for repetition.”

— Gina Barreca

“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched." [ My Uncle Sosthenes ]”

— Guy de Maupassant

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

“May works be the test of patriotism as they ought, of right, to be of religion.”

— Stephen E. Ambrose

“True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our…

— Robert McAfee Brown

Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.

— William Jennings Bryan

“Without acquainting me with the language or the literature or the oral family histories which my ancestors had loved, they volunteered to make me…

— Kurt Vonnegut