You mean that this is a matter of patriotism and traders aren't patriotic?
"Notoriously not. Pioneers never are."

I hate patriotism. I can't stand it, man — makes me fuckin' sick. It's a round world last time I checked.

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

"You mean that this is a matter of patriotism and traders aren't patriotic?"
"Notoriously not. Pioneers never are."

Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism.

Patriotism is most often nothing more but an extension of individual egoism

Patriotism is the vice of nations.

He who is never ashamed of his country has as little patriotism as he who is never proud of his country.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.

I've never really been into flags of any kind, cause flags can bring people together, but they always bring people together against other people, and I don't really consider myself to be a patriot in the sense that I say, 'okay, this is my nation,' I consider myself to be a child of this whole planet.

I'll tell you what's wrong with dumb-shit patriotism — it's delusional! It signifies nothing but the American need to win

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!

The hell with him, he thought bitterly. The hell with patriotism in general. In the specific and the abstract. Birds of a feather, soldiers and cops. Anti-intellectual and anti-Negro. Anti-everything except beer, dogs, cars and guns.