“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