Patriotism: The willingness to die for your country, even if it costs you your life.
“I am ready to die for my homeland” is the same as “I am ready to kill for my homeland.”
Mason Cooley
If a dog howls at the moon, that is religion; and if she barks at a stranger, this is patriotism.
David Starr Jordan
What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy!
Attributed to Camillo Cavour
An amazing paradox: citizens are much more willing to sacrifice their lives than their money.
Agen
We were prescribed patriotism, and we became patriots, for we do everything that our sovereigns order us to do.
Heinrich Heine
Many recognize unconditional praise for everything that is their own as patriotism. Turgot called this lackey patriotism. We could call it leavened patriotism.
Petr Vyazemsky
The winning French athlete is French. The losing French athlete is just an athlete, to say the least.
Coluche
Whether she is right or not, this is my country: if she is right, I must help her stay right; if not, help her become right.
Carl Schurz
Anyone who, instead of one ear, manages to grow two ears in the same field, will render humanity and his homeland a greater service than all politicians taken together.
Jonathan Swift
Anyone can say: "The great testaments of Hus are alive in us," but who dares to say: "The great testaments of Hus are alive in me."
Karel Capek
I free man, American, United States Senator and Democrat - in that order.
Lyndon Johnson
Do I have a fatherland determined by place, for which the fatherland is everywhere and nowhere?
Gregory the Theologian
Like a slave, I die for the fatherland and, like a cosmopolitan, for the world.
Alexander Suvorov in a letter to D. I. Khvostov (1800)
Patriotism is flammable rubbish, ready to burst into flames from the torch of an ambitious person who wants to glorify his name.
A. Beers
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
S. Johnson
Patriotism ends where the tax return begins.
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There will never be peace in the world until you beat patriotism out of the human race.
B. Show
A person is not an alcoholic, but a normal person who drinks moderately - this is a person who has long been known for his patriotism. Everything he drinks is all within the budget. That is, vodka in the body, and the money is all in the budget.
A. Livshits
A patriot is a person to whom the interests of the part are presented above the interests of the whole. He is a toy in the hands of statesmen and a tool in the hands of conquerors.
A. Beers
There are only two varieties, there is nowhere to go: either a patriot of his fatherland, or a scoundrel of his life.
A. Ostrovsky
To be a true patriot, one should not forget that first of all we are gentlemen, and only then - patriots.
Edmund Burke
Rulers should not accuse people of lack of patriotism, but do everything in their power to make them patriots.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
... Attacks ... on the shortcomings and vices of the people is not a crime, but a merit, there is true patriotism.
Patriotism, no matter who it is, is proved not by word, but by deed.
Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
Love for one's own good produces in us love for the fatherland, and personal pride produces national pride, which serves as a support for patriotism.
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin
Patriotism should not blind us; love for the fatherland is an act of clear reason, and not a blind passion.
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin
The historical significance of every great Russian man is measured by his merits to his homeland, his human dignity- by the strength of his patriotism.
A patriot is a person who serves the motherland, and the motherland is, first of all, the people.
Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky
Patriotism is one of the deepest feelings, fixed for centuries and millennia of isolated fatherlands.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The moral duty of a true patriot is to serve the people in humanity and humanity in the people.
Vladimir Sergeevich Solovyov
The most unfortunate peoples are the most attached to native land.
Jean Aliber
: I love my Fatherland, as Peter the Great taught me to love it. I confess that this blissful patriotism, this patriotism of laziness, which manages to see everything in a rosy light and rushes about with its illusions, is alien to me.
Zhvanetsky:
Patriotism is a clear, clear, well-reasoned explanation that we should live worse than others.Montesquieu:
The best remedy to instill in children a love for the fatherland is to have this love in the fathers.A.S. Pushkin:
I despise my Fatherland from head to toe, but if foreigners agree with this, I feel very sorry.Joseph Kobzon :
A country that protects its citizen has the right to count on mutual respect and patriotism.Joseph Kobzon :
You have to love the country. Even if the Motherland is not completely healthy, everything must be done to raise it to its feet.Georges Clemenceau:
The patriot loves his people, and the nationalist hates everyone else.Jean Jaures:
A true patriot is one who speaks the truth even to his own country.Anatoly Wasserman:
Well " patriotic education» in schools is capable of causing hatred for the motherland even among the healthy child. But teaches them the art of imitation of love.Leonid Yarmolnik:
The loss of such concepts as “morality”, “honor”, coupled with leavened patriotism, makes people superficial, and turns our life into some kind of comics.Trotsky:
Patriotism throughout history has been inextricably linked with power and property.IN AND. Lenin:
Patriotism is one of the deepest feelings, fixed for centuries and millennia of isolated fatherlands.Evgeny Mironov:
It is necessary to offer, not impose. And patriotism, by the way, should also be natural. You can't plant it.Evgeny Mironov:
The imposition of spirituality and patriotism from above will lead to only one thing - to the appearance new system when everyone will again love their homeland on the instructions of the party.Diego Maradona:
My name was at the top of the list of the most famous people world, so IMG offered me a million dollars for the right to use my image. But there was one hitch: for this I had to take double citizenship- Argentine-American. And my nationality is priceless. No one can pay me so much that I no longer feel like an Argentine, no one!Richard Bach :
Our true country is the country of our values, and our consciousness is the voice of its patriotism.Radishchev:
true man and the son of the Fatherland are one and the same.Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
It is not enough to say to citizens: “Be kind!” - you need to teach them to be like that; and even an example, which in this respect should serve as a first lesson, is not the only means necessary here. Love for the fatherland is always effective, for every person is virtuous when his private will in everything corresponds to the general will; and we willingly desire the same things that the people we love desire.Valentin Pikul:
How many the greatest minds the past called the peoples to peace, harmony and equality. But history does not care about these calls, it follows its own path - robbery, violence and stupidity of peoples with a false sense of foolish patriotism.Orwell:
There are no patriots where we are talking about taxes.Alexander Ostrovsky:
There are only two varieties, there is nowhere to go: either a patriot of his fatherland, or a scoundrel of his life.Vissarion Belinsky:
Attacks on the shortcomings and vices of the people is not a crime, but a merit, there is true patriotism.Pierre Buast:
Enlightenment and patriotism create nations; ignorance and selfishness create mob.Vladimir Khotinenko:
I know one thing for sure: patriotism is not even a medicine, but rather a surgical instrument that must be handled very carefully.Thomas Jefferson:
Dissent is highest form patriotism.ON THE. Dobrolyubov:
True patriotism, as a private manifestation of love for humanity, does not coexist with hostility towards individual nationalities.ON THE. Dobrolyubov:
In recent times, patriotism has consisted in praising all that is good in the fatherland; now this is not enough to be a patriot. Now, in addition to the praise of everything good, there has been added an inexorable censure and persecution of everything bad that we still have.N.G. Chernyshevsky:
A patriot is a person who serves the motherland, and the motherland is, first of all, the people.Heinrich Heine:
At all times, scoundrels tried to disguise their heinous deeds with the interests of religion, morality and patriotism.Mick Jagger :
Patriotism is only an instant reaction, it goes away when a real war starts.I love my Motherland, but I hate the state.
Bulat Okudzhava
Only empty people do not experience a beautiful and sublime feeling of the homeland.
Ivan Pavlov
The fatherland is the land where the captive of the soul.
François-Marie Voltaire
The true courage of enlightened peoples lies in their readiness for self-sacrifice in the name of the motherland.
Georg Hegel
Each of us feels the wound inflicted on our homeland in the depths of our hearts.
Victor Hugo
They love their homeland not because it is great, but because it is their own.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (junior)
But I love you, meek homeland!
And for what - I can not figure it out.
Your short joy is merry
With a loud song in the spring in the meadow.
Sergey Yesenin
My love for the fatherland does not make me close my eyes to the merits of foreigners. On the contrary, the more I love my fatherland, the more I strive to enrich my country with treasures not extracted from its depths.
François-Marie Voltaire
Exile the air is bitter
Like poisoned wine.
Anna Akhmatova
Maybe our people are bad, but they are our people, and that decides everything.
Vasily Rozanov
Paganism is morning, Christianity is evening. Every single thing and the whole world. Will the morning not come, is it last night? Russian life is both dirty and weak, but somehow sweet. This is the last thing you are afraid to lose, otherwise it would be “for nothing”. You are afraid of losing something unique and something that will not happen again. The best will be repeated, but not this. And you want something like this...
Vasily Rozanov
The people have a soul, which must be joined in order to understand it! No, its converters and educators see in it only a known quantity, a known given mental force, on which experiments are required. And besides, what amazing courage and self-confidence! It is required in the name of some higher and unconditional goal to carry out these experiments necessarily and forcibly!! How to produce them - in this very thing the teachers not only agree - in the firm intention to act on thought and develop, develop it! In vain do weak voices object to them, common man more than one mind, that he has a soul, the same as that of any other, that in his heart he has the same fortress on which he must build his whole life, and on which his church structure still stands ... No, - they all turn to thought and want to call it to an essentially idle activity, on questions that have long been easily and cheaply resolved by the Enlighteners themselves. What a delusion!
Konstantin Pobedonostsev
A people that has retained the feeling of a nation cannot perish.
Pyotr Wrangel
For Bolshevism, both in its teaching and in its practice, there is no homeland, no patriotism, no nation, but only an international arena.
Every person is aware of his blood ties and spiritual kinship with the Fatherland.
A civilized people has a great dignity - love for the Motherland. – Napoleon Bonaparte
The connection with the homeland in the mind of a citizen is a feeling for the living native land and the people who inhabit it in generalization and specificity. – A. A. Blok
Fatherland and Motherland is the land where the soul languishes and suffers. – Voltaire
In the cell of the family, love for the Motherland is born. – F. Bacon
Two feelings that disturb us. In them, the body finds the soul. Love for home. Craving for paternal penates. – Pushkin A.S.
Unlimited freedom and obligatory duty can be given by the true Motherland. – T. Jefferson
The wound inflicted on the homeland is felt by the entire state and each of its individual citizens. – V. Hugo
At the word "Fatherland" the timid become brave, rejecting death and disease. – Lucain
Homeland is special person with whom I feel comfortable talking. I. Goethe
A son cannot look calmly at the troubles of his mother, a person worthy of his back to the Fatherland will not turn - N. A. Nekrasov
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He who does not love his country cannot love anything. — Byron D.
Whoever does not consider himself connected with his fatherland has nothing to do with humanity. – Belinsky V. G.
It is gratifying and honorable to die for the fatherland. – Horace
The love of the sons of Russia strengthens the fatherland, spirit and hand; everyone wants to shed all the blood, from the formidable sound invigorates. – M.V. Lomonosov
A true man and a son of the Fatherland are one and the same... He is downright noble, whose heart cannot but tremble with tender joy at the single name of the Fatherland... - A.N. Radishchev
Patriotism in the national sense is the same as egoism in the individual sense; both flow essentially from the same source and bring the same benefits and the same calamities. Respect for one's society is a reflection of respect for oneself. — Spencer G.
The smoke of the fatherland is so sweet to us and we love it! - Griboyedov A.
You can't be a hero fighting against your homeland. — Hugo W.
There is nothing worse than wandering in foreign lands. – Homer
It is better to die far from the homeland than to live without a homeland in the soul. – V. Delaunay
The defense of the motherland is the defense of one's own dignity. – N. Roerich
Good news about our side is sweet to us: Fatherland and smoke are sweet to us. – Derzhavin G. R.
In places where there are no free rights, there is no homeland of the region. – L. Becherel
Russia - Sphinx. Rejoicing and grieving, And shedding black blood, She looks, looks, looks at you, And with hatred, and with love! .. - Blok A.A.
Rulers should not accuse people of lack of patriotism, but do everything in their power to make them patriots. – T. Macaulay
I fell in love with you, my uncomplaining country! And for what - I can not understand. Your manifestations are cheerful to me with the advent of the spring-blooming season. - Yesenin S.
Love for the fatherland is compatible with love for the whole world. The people, acquiring the light of knowledge, do not harm their neighbors. On the contrary, the more enlightened the states, the more ideas they communicate to each other, and the more the strength and activity of the universal mind increase. — Helvetius K.
No idea how to donate own life, defending their brothers and their fatherland, or even just defending the interests of their fatherland ... - F.M. Dostoevsky
They adore the homeland not because it is huge in size, but because it is close to us. – Seneca
In order to destroy an entire homeland, even one scoundrel may be enough: there are multiple historical examples confirming death. – Napoleon I
Homeland is where you feel freedom. – Abu-l-Faraj
As long as we burn with freedom, as long as hearts are alive for honor, my friend, we will devote our souls to the fatherland beautiful impulses! – A.S. Pushkin
The best mission is to defend your fatherland. – Derzhavin G. R.
They love their homeland not because it is great, but because it is their own. – Seneca
The smoke of the fatherland is sweet. – Homer
To sacrifice one's life for one's homeland is a happy lot: He who perishes with valor is immortal forever. — Cornell P.
Patriotism, no matter who it is, is proved not by word, but by deed. – Belinsky V. G.
Get only to a foreign land, so you begin to assure that we have fried pigs walking around. – Petronius
I am fully convinced that no nation in the world is gifted with any ability preferentially over others ... - G. Lessing
The good news about our side is dear to us: the fatherland and the smoke are sweet and pleasant to us. – G.R. Derzhavin
For the complete happiness of a person, it is necessary to have a glorious fatherland. - Simonides of Ceos
What is humanly more beautiful, purer than the holy struggle for the homeland? – F. Schiller
The sun does not warm in a foreign land. – T.G. Shevchenko
The historical significance of every Russian great man is measured by his merits to his homeland, his human dignity - by the strength of his patriotism ... - N.G. Chernyshevsky
The best way to instill in children a love for the fatherland is to have this love in the fathers.
But even then, When the enmity of the tribes will pass in the whole planet, Lies and sadness will disappear, - I will sing with All my being in the poet The sixth part of the earth With the name brief Rus'. – Yesenin S. A.
Treason to the motherland requires extreme baseness of the soul. – Chernyshevsky N. G.
A good name belongs to everyone an honest man but I concluded good name in the glory of my Fatherland, and all my deeds tended to its prosperity. Self-love, often a submissive veil of fleeting passions, never controlled my actions. I forgot myself where it was necessary to think about the common good. My life was a harsh school, but my morals were innocent and my natural generosity facilitated my labors: my feelings were free, and I myself was firm. – Suvorov A.V.
A patriot is a person who serves the motherland, and the motherland is, first of all, the people. – Chernyshevsky N. G.
As long as we burn with freedom, As long as our hearts are alive for honor, My friend, let us dedicate our souls to our homeland Beautiful impulses! – Pushkin A.S.
And the month will sail and sail, Dropping oars on the lakes, And Rus' will still live, Dancing and crying at the fence. – Yesenin S. A.
For us, Russians with a soul, one Russia is original, one Russia truly exists; everything else is only a relation to it, thought, Providence. We can think and dream in Germany, France, Italy, but we can only do business in Russia. – Karamzin N. M.
You can't understand Russia with the mind, You can't measure it with a common yardstick: She has a special become - In Russia, you can only believe. - Tyutchev F.I.
To betray your country, you must have an extremely low moral spirit. – Chernyshevsky N.
You must dedicate your life to the fatherland, if you want to be an honest person forever. – D.I. Fonvizin
It is permissible, I think, for every true Russian who sincerely loves his Fatherland, at this decisive hour, to be a little annoyed at those who, by their influence, direct or indirect, pushed into a disastrous war, who did not take into account its moral and material resources and took their theories for true policy of the country, his unfinished research - for a genuine national feeling, who, finally, prematurely singing victorious hymns, misled public opinion when it is not too late to stop on that slippery path along which the country was carried away by frivolity or mediocrity. It is permissible, I think, in the face of our disasters, not to share the aspirations of unbridled patriotism, which has brought the country to the edge of the abyss, which thinks to extricate itself, persisting in its illusions, not wanting to recognize the desperate situation it has created. – Chaadaev P. Ya.
The best way to instill in children a love for the fatherland is to have this love in the fathers. – C. Montesquieu
Love for the fatherland is compatible with love for the whole world. The people, acquiring the light of knowledge, do not harm their neighbors. On the contrary, the more enlightened the states, the more ideas they communicate to each other, and the more the strength and activity of the universal mind increases. – K. Helvetius
Find where your roots are and don't fuss about other worlds. — Toro G.
Parents are dear to us, dear children, relatives, relatives; but all ideas about love for something are combined in one word fatherland. What honest man would hesitate to die for her if he could benefit her by doing so? – Cicero
In a full and healthy nature, the fate of the motherland lies heavily on the heart ... every noble person is deeply aware of his blood relationship, his blood ties with the fatherland. – V.G. Belinsky
The smoke of the fatherland is sweet. – Homer
Without true love for humanity, there is no true love for the motherland ... - A. France
Two feelings are wonderfully close to us - In them the heart finds food: Love for the native ashes, Love for the father's coffins. – Pushkin A.S.
But I love you, meek homeland! And for what - I can not figure it out. Your short joy is merry With a loud song in the spring in the meadow. – Yesenin S. A.
But who will doze alone in his corner when the Great is happening in the homeland? – F. Schiller
Patriotism is one of the deepest feelings, fixed for centuries and millennia of isolated fatherlands. – Lenin
I certainly hate a lot in my fatherland - but I am very sad if a stranger also shares these feelings with me. – A. Pushkin
Moscow, how immeasurably much is contained in this word. So, connecting Russian souls, as if in the hearts of people it calls for something! – Pushkin A.S.
A statesman, more than other fellow citizens, must be animated, moved and guided by love for the Fatherland. He must live with love for the Fatherland, pour it into his subordinates and be an example in it to the whole state. – Derzhavin G. R.
If the holy army shouts: Throw Rus, live in paradise!, I will say: No need for paradise, Give me my homeland. – Yesenin S. A.
The most courageous thing is to defend your state. — Derzhavin G.
There are no small nations in the world ... The greatness of a people is not at all measured by its numbers, just as the greatness of a person is not measured by his height. – V. Hugo
Love feelings for one's homeland give rise to civilized qualities in a person. — Napoleon.
Many tend to confuse two concepts: the Fatherland and Your Excellency. – M. Saltykov-Shchedrin
The best way to instill in children a love for the fatherland is to have this love in the fathers. – Montesquieu
