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| Sunday, February 22, 2009 |
| Patriotism : In the words of some great men |
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? ~Pablo Casals
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. ~Mark Twain
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ~Bertrand Russell
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ~George Bernard Shaw
I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family. ~Rosika Schwimmer
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. ~George Bernard Shaw
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident. ~Montesquieu
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world. ~Socrates
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. ~Eugene V. Debs
The world is our country, all mankind are our countrymen. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury. ~William Lloyd Garrison, Declaration of Sentiments, Boston Peace Conference, 1838
(modified to use simpler grammar)
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. ~Voltaire
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