Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.
Greil Marcus
Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
Kjell Magne Bondevik
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
I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
Chrissie Hynde
Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn’t class warfare – it’s patriotism.
Cory Booker
When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn’t class warfare – it’s patriotism.
Cory Booker
Patriotism is the religion of hell.
James Branch Cabell
My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
John Woo
It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.
John Amery
I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.
Dominique de Villepin
1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.
Rosa DeLauro
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
David Starr Jordan
Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
Frank Knox
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
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