Quotations about Patriotism

Patriotism is the willingness
to kill and be killed for trivial
reasons.
Bertrand Russell
(1872 - 1970)

"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." G. K. Chesterton
(1874 - 1936)

Patriotism is your conviction
that this country is superior
to all other countries because
you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 - 1950)

You'll never have a quiet
world till you knock the
patriotism out of the human
race.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 - 1950), "Misalliance"

Patriotism is often an arbitrary
veneration of real estate
above principles.
George Jean Nathan
(1882 - 1958)

Don't be a fool and die for
your country. Let the other
sonofabitch die for his.
George S. Patton
(1885 - 1945), (attributed)