Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, 1775
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world
because you were born in it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1893
Patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
—George Jean Nathan, 1931
Patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling.
—Leo Tolstoy, 1900
Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
—Dean Inge, 1919
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
—Bertrand Russell, 1962
There is only one faith for which large masses of us are prepared to die and kill, and this
faith is nationalism.
—Aldous Huxley, 1958
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend
human institutions to the service of dissention and distress.
—Thorstein Veblen, 1923
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1918
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
—George Orwell, 1945
Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity.
—Erich Fromm, 1955
Nationalism […] is like cheap alcohol. First, it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind,
and then it kills you.
—Dan Fried, 2007
***
I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad
and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.
—Archibald Cox
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—Samuel Johnson, 1775
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world
because you were born in it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1893
Patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
—George Jean Nathan, 1931
Patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling.
—Leo Tolstoy, 1900
Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
—Dean Inge, 1919
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
—Bertrand Russell, 1962
There is only one faith for which large masses of us are prepared to die and kill, and this
faith is nationalism.
—Aldous Huxley, 1958
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend
human institutions to the service of dissention and distress.
—Thorstein Veblen, 1923
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1918
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
—George Orwell, 1945
Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity.
—Erich Fromm, 1955
Nationalism […] is like cheap alcohol. First, it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind,
and then it kills you.
—Dan Fried, 2007
***
I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad
and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.
—Archibald Cox
9
9
As quoted, without a date, in several generally reliable sources, starting not later than 1977, i.e.
during the author’s lifetime.
On War and Peace
187