Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
- Richard Aldington
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
- James A. Baldwin
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
- Pablo Casals
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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.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
- William J. Clinton
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
- Calvin Coolidge
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A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
- George William Curtis
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I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
- Eugene V. Debs
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
- Albert Einstein
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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- Albert Einstein
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
- Nathan Hale
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
- William R. Inge
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And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
- John F. Kennedy
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
- Guy de Maupassant
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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
- George Jean Nathan
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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
- Blaise Pascal
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
- Bertrand Russell
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
- George Santayana
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
- George Bernard Shaw
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
- George Bernard Shaw
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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
- William Shenstone
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
- Socrates
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Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
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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 me label you as they may.
- Mark Twain
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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
- Voltaire
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The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
- Earl Warren
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