Quotes on Patriotism And Nationalism

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

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.

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

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country._x000D_ _x000D_ My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

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

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.