#patriotism

We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#against #ask #battle #big #big country

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

— William Ralph Inge

#about #ancestry #common #delusion #hatred

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

— Dale Carnegie

#breeds #each #feels #nation #nations

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#beneficent #come #courage #deity #develops

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. ↗

— Diogenes

#am #citizen #greek #i #i am

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

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#behavior #civilized #consider #contradicts #desirable

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#come #patriotism #some #surpass #tribal

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#been #bush #democratic #fought #honourable

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#believe #between #deserves #distinction #fuzzy

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#continuous #cry #emergency #fear #fervor