Patriotism(25)

"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
Albert Einstein

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Nathan Hale

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

"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

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

"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."
George Jean Nathan

"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

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

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

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
George Bernard Shaw