George Bernard Shaw

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

Clarence Darrow

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

George Santayana

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

William J. Clinton

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

William Shenstone

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Earl Warren

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Pablo Casals

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

Leo Tolstoy

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Bertrand Russell

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

Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Mark Twain

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

George Jean Nathan

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Calvin Coolidge

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Guy de Maupassant

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Albert Einstein

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Richard Aldington

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

Arthur C. Clarke

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.