“It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.”– Alfred Adler Related Quotes “The deliberate habituation of patriotism has a bearing upon the problem of peace. Knowledge of other peoples will not bring harmony and mutual goodwill unless it is sympathetic knowledge, and, if it is to be sympathetic, our mental prepossessions must be shaped so as to open our minds to a just appreciation of unwelcome facts and ways at variance with our own.”— Clarence Reidenbach “Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”– Bertrand Russell “I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?”– Bill Maher