“Apenas o mastro em que a bandeira é hasteada e o vento. Nenhuma bandeira” (III)

"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" ― Emma Goldman

"In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people" ― Eugene V. Debs

"Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes" ― Bertolt Brecht

"How does one hate a country, or love one?... I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is the love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing" ― Ursula K. Le Guin

"There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots" ― Iain Banks

"I'm no more modern than ancient, no more French than Chinese, and the idea of a native country, that is to say, the imperative to live on one bit of ground marked red or blue on the map and to hate the other bits in green or black, has always seemed to me narrow-minded, blinkered and profoundly stupid" - Gustave Flaubert

"Man is the only patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns, he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man, with his mouth” - Mark Twain

“Apenas o mastro em que a bandeira é hasteada e o vento. Nenhuma bandeira” (I)

"A patriot is a fool in every age" – Alexander Pope

"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel" – Samuel Johnson 

"In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first" – Ambrose Bierce 

"Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen" – Ambrose Bierce

"That pernicious sentiment, 'Our country, right or wrong'" – James Russell Lowell 

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it" – George Bernard Shaw 

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious" – George Bernard Shaw 

"You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race" – George Bernard Shaw 

"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy" – George Bernard Shaw 

"One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous" – Aldous Huxley

"How does one hate a country, or love one?... I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is the love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing" ― Ursula K. Le Guin

Revisões da matéria dada (XLIII)

"Apenas o mastro em que a bandeira é hasteada e o vento. Nenhuma bandeira” (e, mais genericamente, aqui)

“Apenas o mastro em que a bandeira é hasteada e o vento. Nenhuma bandeira” (II)

"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority" – Arthur Schopenhauer

"Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions" – Arthur Schopenhauer

"Patriotism corrupts history" – Goethe

"Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in the bearings. Its net contribution to the outcome is obscuration, distrust, and retardation at every point where it touches the fortunes of modern mankind" – Thorstein Veblen

"At the bottom of all patriotism is war: that is why I am no patriot" – Jules Renard

"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!" – Albert Einstein

"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched" – Guy de Maupassant

"God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed" – Luis Buñuel