Sentences with Patriotism, Sentences about Patriotism
1. Patriotism is the religion of hell.
2. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
3. I want to light the lights of patriotism.
4. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
5. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
6. Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.
7. I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
8. It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
9. Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
10. Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
11. These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.
12. Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
13. I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
14. Let’s give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.
15. I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.
16. I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
17. There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
18. Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
19. Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
20. There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.
21. True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
22. Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
23. Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
24. There’s intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
25. I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.
26. My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
27. We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
28. Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
29. For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
30. Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.
31. One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.
32. Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
33. You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
34. Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
35. The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
36. We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
37. Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.
38. But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.
39. Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
40. Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
41. I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
42. If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.
43. Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
44. My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing and I should reject that patriotism
45. When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
46. Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.
47. True patriotism isn’t cheap. It’s about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
48. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
49. Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
50. Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
51. Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
52. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
53. But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don’t have something that I want to die for – anymore.
54. It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.
55. You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
56. I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
57. There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
58. Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
59. There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
60. Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
61. During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
62. Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
63. Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it….
64. I’m an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
65. You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it.
66. Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
67. Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.
68. America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people’s rights and their sense of patriotism.
69. I don’t want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.
70. The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
71. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!
72. The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one’s country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
73. I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
74. Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
75. I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.
76. The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America’s past success are still here to be tapped.
77. Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.
78. Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else’s?
79. A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
80. No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
81. Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It’s all a bit silly.
82. Look, I think Hispanic community – the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.
83. America’s state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that ‘treason’ is morally worse than murder or rape.
84. Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.
85. I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.
86. The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.
87. If military movies were automatically successful we’d make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
88. 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!
89. What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
90. The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
91. To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary… is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.
92. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a ‘universal’ without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.
93. Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.
94. Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.
95. The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought – at least by Americans – in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.
