patriotism, n.Definitions

Patriotism is a principle.

Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

Patriotism is a kind of religion... it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Patriotism is a splendid thing, but why should love stop at the border.

Patriotism is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Patriotism is a relativistic concept. Osama bin laden, who is a saudi, feels himself to be a patriot because the u.S. Has forces in saudi arabia, which is sacred because it is the land of the prophet mohammed.

Patriotism is a devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people.

Patriotism is actually the opposite of conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.