Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

Nationalism made us feel as if we were a unique, chosen people. That's what led us down the path of aggression.

The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others

My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew.

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

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

A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

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

Don't spread patriotism too thin.

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

I don't belong to any side. What's more, I think flags are nothing but painted rags that represent rancid emotions. Just seeing someone wrapped up in one of them, spewing out hymns, badges and speeches, gives me the runs. I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking people (and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the “Nation,” it’s time for all of us to sit up and worry.

Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.

An apology for America's values is never the right course.

By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet.

PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.

Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life is killed out; it becomes a dead word in the vocabulary-a blank counter, to be moved to any part of the game; and that flag which, streaming from the mast-head of our ship of state, striped with martyr-blood, and glistening with the stars of lofty promise, should always indicate our worldwide mission, and the glorious destinies that we carry forward, is bandied about in every selfish skirmish, and held up as the symbol of every political privateer.

The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.

The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.

Patriotism ruins history.

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?