Quote | Author | Date | Note |
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The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, |
W. S. Gilbert | 1836 – 1911 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill. |
Richard Aldington | 1892 – 1962 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. |
Edith Cavell | 1865 – 1915 | spoken in prison the night before her execution : Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race. |
Albert Einstein | 1879 – 1955 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. |
Samuel Johnson | 1709 – 1784 | |
As I think of the many myths, there is one that is very harmful, and that is the myth of countries. |
Jorge Luis Borges | 1899 – 1986 | |
It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber. |
Edmund Burke | 1729 – 1797 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors. |
Voltaire | 1694 – 1778 |