Definition of Patriotism

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Definition of Patriotism
	Patriotism Love of country; devotion to the welfare of one's country; the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which inspires one to serve one's country. Related Definitions: And, Country, Devotion, Love, Of, One, Passion, Patriot, Serve, The, To, Welfare, Which

Patriotism Quotations

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

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

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington

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

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob Dylan

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Charles de Gaulle

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

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

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
George Orwell

Patriotism Translations

patriotism in Dutch is vaderlandsliefde, patriottisme
patriotism in French is patriotisme
patriotism in German is Patriotismus
patriotism in Italian is patriottismo
patriotism in Spanish is patriotismo

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