Marcus Luttrell Quotes

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

This sort of thing may be tolerated by the French, but we are British, thank God.

Had you met me when I was 18 I was very, very patriotic almost to the point of sounding a little bit bigoted or racist, but then I moved away, came to London, my eyes were opened and I saw the world.

Racism is about education. Racism is ignorance.

We have become so used to complaining about the state of our country that we have forgotten what it is to celebrate India, to celebrate what India stands for.

In England, we're arrogant to everything else.

God bless America. And no place else.

We [Americans] choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.

We've gotta cut this country down to size and people here need to find out what it's like what we've done to people around the world, and that's not who we are. And [Donald] Trump is coming along saying those days are over; we are the solution, we are going, our system of government, we are gonna promote it, we are gonna promote our way of life around the world as the best in the world.

This is where I started life. This is where I went to uni. This is where the people I know are. This is my country, and when I put on my Great Britain vest, I'm proud, very proud, that it's my country.

No, I'm very patriotic. I'm very British and I'm very pro-British, but that in no way means you therefore exterminate anybody else you meet who doesn't come from Britain!

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.

I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other countries.

Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done and suffered to make his country what it is? There is room, plenty of room, for proper pride of land and birth. What I inveigh against is a cursed spirit of intolerance, conceived in distrust and bred in ignorance, that makes the mental attitude perennially antagonistic, even bitterly antagonistic, to everything foreign, that subordinates everywhere the race to the nation, forgetting the higher claims of human brotherhood.

All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.

The pamphlet was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.

I don't mind foreigners. God save the queen!" he squeaked and ran.

The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.

Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.

There's just something about being English. When you travel the world you feel more grateful.

Nothing is more annoying in the ordinary intercourse of life than this irritable patriotism of the Americans. A foreigner will gladly agree to praise much in their country, but he would like to be allowed to criticize something, and that he is absolutely refused.

Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.