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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

—George Jean Nathan

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

—Bertrand Russell

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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

—Winston Churchill

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

—Bertrand Russell

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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

—Bill Vaughan

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

—Albert Einstein

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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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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

—Simone Weil

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Q: What's the difference between religion and patriotism?
A: When a dog howls at the moon, that's religion. When a dog barks at a stranger, that's patriotism.

—Unknown

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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government.

—Edward Abbey

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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

—Edmund Burke

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True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels themthe desire to do rightis precisely the same.

—Bertrand Russell

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The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.

—G. K. Chesterton

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My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.

—George Bernard Shaw

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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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