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

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

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

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein

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

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
Bob Riley

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Eugene V. Debs

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

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

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Voltaire

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

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington

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

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

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain

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

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

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Pablo Casals

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

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
William Shenstone

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
William J. Clinton

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

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow

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

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw