“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.” – Charles de Gaulle
“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.” – Guy de Maupassant
“The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?” – Pablo Casals
“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.” – George Bernard Shaw
“A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers” – John Fitzgerald …
“Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy” – George Bernard Shaw
“Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.” – Steve Allen
“During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.” – Howard Thurman
“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.” – Bob Dylan