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Everyone
loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of
artist.
-- Lawrence Durrell
1912-1990, British Author
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
1941-, American Author,
Columnist
Patriotism has
its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of
country is the expansion of dutiful love.
-- D. D. Field
Nationalism is
our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity.
''Patriotism'' is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to
say, that by ''patriotism'' I mean that attitude which puts
the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth
and justice; not the loving interest in one's own nation,
which is the concern with the nation's spiritual as much as
with its material welfare --never with its power over other
nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the
love for others is not love, love for one's country which is
not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but
idolatrous worship.
-- Erich Fromm
1900-1980, American
Psychologist
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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying
it an implied tribute.
-- J. William
Fulbright
1905-, American
Democratic Politician
I
only regret that I have but one life to lose for
my country.
-- Nathan Hale
1755-1776,
American Revolutionary Soldier
I
wonder that we Americans love our country at
all, it having no limits and no oneness; and
when you try to make it a matter of the heart,
everything falls away except one's native State;
--neither can you seize hold of that, unless you
tear it out of the Union, bleeding and
quivering.
-- Nathaniel
Hawthorne
1804-1864,
American Novelist, Short Story Writer
I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died
just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and
once they were dead their patriotism was only
good for legends; it was bad for their prose and
made them write bad poetry. If you are going to
be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing
order of government (not one who wishes to
destroy the existing for something better) you
want to be killed early if your life and works
won't stink.
-- Ernest
Hemingway
1898-1961,
American Writer
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