828 Quotes About Patriotism

What’s dooty, if you won’t carry it to the other side of Hell? What’s the use of yapping about your country if you’re going to keep something back when she calls for it? What’s the good of meaning to win the war if you don’t put every cent you’ve got on your stake?... No, Dick, that kind of dooty don’t deserve a blessing. You dursn’t keep anything back if you want to save your soul.

I knew no harm of Bonaparte and plenty of the Squire,And for to fight the Frenchman I did not much desire;But I did bash their baggonets because they came arrayedTo straighten out the crooked road an English drunkard made

In a war, both sides genuinely believe that they are on the side of righteousness, yet no righteousness ever shows them the futility of the very war they are fighting. Because, both sides are driven by the instinctual force of nationalist patriotism. So, think of the countless wars that have caused gallons and gallons of bloodshed, all because warriors on both sides were incapable of reasoning due to the cognitive blindness caused by nationalism.

Oh, what an absolute waste of life dying for the sake of a country in a war is. We are squandering the gift to experience the magnificence of everything around us. We are losing it to fight for something artificial and irrelevant.

We are in a cave, not knowing why and how. Should we spend time in finding that out, and why this cave exists in the first place? Or should we divide the cave into countries and fight amongst ourselves?

Tribalism is the root of all wars.

Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.