There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

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A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

quote by Samuel Johnson
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The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

quote by Herbert Croly
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The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

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Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

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It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

quote by Ho Chi Minh
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Everyone Else Seems to Be Drugged

Militant, nationalistic...
And nonconformist!

Gee...
I remember in my youth,
Folks like this were called misfits.
Now they are regarded as patriotic.
Since they are the only ones today,
Expressing a passion for their beliefs.
And proud to say they will defend them.

Everyone else seems to be drugged,
On some addictive prescription needed.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.

quote by Robert Trout
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

quote by John Dryden
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

quote by George Washington
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Politics

No more politics
Do something patriotic
No more cosmetics

poem by Asif Andalib
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

quote by George Bernard Shaw
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Territorial integrity

Why countries are simply invaded?
Do the other countries are principally wedded?
Does their ethnic love and belonging firmly embedded?
The country’s territory annexed and added

Is it grand design to form a powerful block?
The bell should ring as per their time in clock
Will their aim succeed and keep together the flock
Fire will be raging inside giving room for smoke

It is how the nationalism and patriotism suffer
Small countries cease to exist and work as buffer
They may lie low but not at the cost of national pride
No one will tolerate the insult and shame to newly bride

They prefer to have sway and hegemony
Every occasion availed with grand ceremony
Show of strength with power and money
Why should they bother for peace and harmony?

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poem by Hasmukh Amathalal
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These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

quote by Schuyler Colfax
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It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

quote by Alfred Adler
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People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.

quote by Robert Mueller
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

quote by William Cowper
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The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

quote by George Orwell
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Pervasive Rhetoric War

with declared war on terrorism war
is promoted as a nationalistic virtue
by shadow governments who continue
to kill peace makers opposed to war

poem by Terence George Craddock
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