Instinct Quote by Robert Ardrey

“Let me ask you this, Mr. Ai: do you know, by your own experience, what patriotism is?” “No,” I said, shaken by the force…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Patriotism is a feeling that grows as you become conscious of your surroundings.

— Jubin Nautiyal

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

— Gina Barreca

The word patriotism, or its equivalents and derivations, is upon everyone's lips at the present time. It is a magic word which is thought…

— Ernest Belfort Bax

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 a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.

— William Jennings Bryan

PATRIOTISM, n. 1) The inability to distinguish between the government and one's 'country'; 2) A highly praiseworthy virtue characterized by the desire to dominate…

— Chaz Bufe

“I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to…

— David Ehrenfeld

“Patriotism is a fierce love for the nation’s soul - its land, its people, its core, coupled with a burning contempt for a government…

— Njau Kihia

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

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

— Denis Diderot