Great Throughts Treasury

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Nancy Gibbs

Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is best in a nation’s character: a commitment to principle, a willingness to sacrifice, a devotion to the community by the choice of the individual. But among its toxic fruits are intolerance, belligerence and blind obedience, perhaps because it blooms most luxuriantly during times of war.

Character | Choice | Commitment | Devotion | Individual | Intolerance | Obedience | Patriotism | Sacrifice | War |

Garrison Keillor, fully Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor

I look upon the world as my fatherland... I look upon true patriotism as the brotherhood of man and the service of all to all.

Brotherhood | Character | Man | Patriotism | Service | World |

Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.

Bigotry | Character | Prejudice |

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.

Bigotry | Soul | Thought | Wisdom | Truths |

Philip Caputo

In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.

Patriotism | Wisdom |

Henry Giles

It should be the work of a genuine and noble patriotism to raise the life of the nation to the level of its privileges; to harmonize its general practice with its abstract principles; to reduce to actual facts the ideals of its institutions; to elevate instruction into knowledge; to deepen knowledge into wisdom; to render knowledge and wisdom complete in righteousness; and to make the love of country perfect in the love of man.

Abstract | Ideals | Knowledge | Life | Life | Love | Man | Patriotism | Practice | Principles | Righteousness | Wisdom | Work | Instruction |

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The patriotism of antiquity becomes in modern societies a caricature. In antiquity, it developed naturally from the whole condition of a people, its youth, its situation, its culture - with us it is an awkward imitation. Our life demands, not separation from other nations, but constant intercourse; our city life is not that of the ancient city-state.

Antiquity | Culture | Imitation | Life | Life | Nations | Patriotism | People | Wisdom | Youth |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There can be no patriotism without liberty, no liberty without virtue, no virtue without citizens; create citizens, and you have everything you need; without them, you will have nothing but debased slaves, from the rulers of the State downwards. To form citizens is not the work of a day; and in order to have men it is necessary to educate them when they are children.

Children | Day | Liberty | Men | Need | Nothing | Order | Patriotism | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Wisdom | Work |

Oscar S. Straus, fully Oscar Solomon Straus

There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.

Civilization | Duty | Mankind | Patriotism | Trust | Wisdom |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.

Patriotism | Understanding |

O. Henry, pen name for William Sydney Porter

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving.

Art | Business | Family | Love | Man | Nothing | Patriotism | Religion | Words | Business | Art |

Queen Elizabeth II, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary NULL

True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.

Patriotism | Understanding |

Charles Caleb Colton

There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.

Bigotry | Thought |

George Bernard Shaw

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

Human race | Patriotism | Quiet | Race | World |

Georg Hegel, fully Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Patriotism is often understood to mean only a readiness for exceptional sacrifices and actions. Essentially, however, it is the sentiment which, in the relationships of our daily life and under ordinary conditions, habitually recognizes that the community is one’s substantive groundwork and end. It is out of this consciousness, which during life’s daily round stands the test in all circumstances, that there subsequently also arises the readiness for extraordinary exertions. But since men would often rather be magnanimous than law-abiding, they readily persuade themselves that they possess this exceptional patriotism in order to be sparing in the expression of a genuine patriotic sentiment or to excuse their lack of it. If again this genuine patriotism is looked upon as that which may begin of itself and arise from subjective ideas and thoughts, it is being confused with opinion, because so regarded patriotism is deprived of its true ground, objective reality.

Circumstances | Consciousness | Ideas | Law | Life | Life | Men | Opinion | Order | Patriotism | Reality | Sentiment |