Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!
Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves nobler, better, grander, more intelligent than those living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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.
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.
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