Ross Douthat Quotes

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

Like other ideals, patriotism varies from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

And my father, after all, was a nationalist.

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.

I love my country more than anything else.

Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

I prefer people to see me as an Ivorian and as a patriot.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.

It’s a little strange, this obsession with the flag. It’s incomprehensible to someone who comes from a country where the flag has, so to speak, disappeared, where any nostalgia and concern for it is a sign of an attachment to the past…

… all that loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.

Show me the race or nation without a flag, and I will show you a people without any pride.

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

The feeling of patriotism --- It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God ... or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

… anti-nationalist British propaganda

By "nationalism" I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognising no other duty than that of advancing its interests.