Social Icons
QuoteHub — Inspirational Quotes & Aphorisms
  • Home
  • Topics
  • Authors
  • Top Quotes
QuoteHub — Inspirational Quotes & Aphorisms
  • Home
  • Topics
  • Authors
  • Top Quotes

Press ESC to close

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

Topic:

Patriotism,

Author:

Friedrich Durrenmatt
Share Article:
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Share on Telegram Share on Whatsapp

Previous Article

My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me with her compassion patience and understanding.

Next Article

I distinguish between nationalism and patriotism.

More in this CategoryPatriotism

Patriotism
View All Articles
1

The higher American patriotism on the other hand combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

2

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

3

In all her history from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.

4

But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for – anymore.

View All Articles

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Article Information

Category: Patriotism

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program you have to reform it for the next generation.
  • 2. Temper never mellows with age and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
  • 3. Alas after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Well I'd love to work with Kate Winslet – she's amazing.
  • 2. If it's an amazing role I'll do anything.
  • 3. I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

3 Anger

  • 1. The flame of anger bright and brief sharpens the barb of love.
  • 2. When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
  • 3. The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening May 15 1876 at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
  • 2. I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.
  • 3. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

5 Architecture

  • 1. So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
  • 2. Opera next to Gothic architecture is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
  • 3. Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
© Diamant Group 2025