There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
George Galloway

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

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
Michael Ignatieff

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
Michael N. Castle

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.
Schuyler Colfax

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.
Robert Jackson

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.
Steve Allen

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

True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
Robert Reich

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.
Vic Snyder

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
Kjell Magne Bondevik

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
Jane Addams

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

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
Francis John McConnell

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
Ambrose Bierce

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
David Starr Jordan

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

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it.
Malcom X

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
Malcolm X