“Patriotism ruins history.” – Goethe
"Patriotism ruins history." – Goethe
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"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched." – Guy de Maupassant
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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it." – Abraham Lincoln
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"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious." – Oscar Wilde
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.” – Oscar Wilde
"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first." – Charles de Gaulle
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"Patriotism is the religion of hell" – James Branch Cabell
“Patriotism is the religion of hell” – James Branch Cabell
"No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots." – Barbara Ehrenreich
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"Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong." – James Bryce
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"The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?" – Pablo Casals
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"America’s state religion, [is] patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape." – William Blum
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