“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