Anti Patriotism Quotes:

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

- Malcolm X

source: Malcolm X (1990). “Malcolm X on Afro-American History”, Pathfinder Press

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Patriotic, Politics And War, Militarism

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Funny, Wisdom, Country, Indian Patriotic, Modern Warfare 2

Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage-torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

- George Orwell

topic: Color, Patriotism, Atrocities, Make Peace Not War, Atrocities Committed

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Peace, Race, Patriotism, Patriotism And Nationalism, Anti Patriotism

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

- George Washington

topic: War, 4th Of July, Patriotism, Memorial Day Poems, Great War

Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves nobler, better, grander, more intelligent than those living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.

- Emma Goldman

source: "What is Patriotism?". Emma Goldman's Speech in San Francisco, California, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. April 26, 1908.

topic: Patriotic, Fighting, Intelligent, Patriotism And Nationalism, Anti Patriotism

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Fear, Patriotic, Patriotism, Psychopathic, Patriotism And Nationalism

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

- Clarence Darrow

topic: Memorial Day, Peace, Hate, September 11th, Independence Day Patriotic

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Patriotism, Lasts, Scoundrels, Patriotism And Nationalism, Militarism

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Patriotism And Nationalism, Patriotism And War

One of the great attractions of patriotism

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Attraction, Nationalism, Patriotism And Nationalism, Patriotism And War, Anti Patriotism

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Spinal Cord Injuries, Spinal Cord

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Patriotism, Patriotism And Nationalism, Anti Patriotism

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: 4th Of July, Patriotic, Government, Independence Day Patriotic, Patriotism And Nationalism

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

- Howard Zinn

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Patriotism, Form, Thrive, Mob Rule, Dissension

Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment in the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the honest workingman.

- Emma Goldman

source: Emma Goldman (2012). “Living My Life”, p.428, Courier Corporation

topic: Exercise, Men, Shoes, Anti Patriotism

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

- Mark Twain

topic: Country, Patriotic, Men, Independent Thought, Integrity Character

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. ... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.

- Emma Goldman

topic: Fighting, Intelligent, Iron, Anti Patriotism

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

- Francois Fenelon

topic: Brother, War, Hippie, Call Of Duty, Patriot Day

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Mother, Country, Patriotic, Mother Country, Other Countries

To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.

- Brock Chisholm

topic: Loyalty, Religious, Men, One World Government, Family Tradition

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Peace, War, Murder, Spinal Cord, Killing It

Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.

- William Plomer

topic: Lasts, Refuge, Militarism, Anti Patriotism

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

- Thomas Tusser

topic: Peace, Patriotic, Men, Integrity Character, Right Way

Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

- Boies Penrose

topic: Office, Political, Lasts, Patriotism And Nationalism, Republic Day

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

- Michael Crichton

source: Michael Crichton (2000). “Timeline”

topic: Safety, Patriotism, Lasts, Patriotism And Nationalism, Republic Day