Critical Love Quotes

I love my country too much to be a nationalist.

Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.

I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that you love a country is by seeing everything that it's done wrong, all of its mistakes, and still thinking that it's beautiful and that it's worthy.

Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently

I think it's vital that we be critical of the things that we love.

Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from.

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.

It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.

Is it permitted to differ with Kierkegaard? Not only permitted but necessary. If you love him.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.

We can be critical of the things that we love. That is possible.

I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world.

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence

There are times when I haven't been proud of America or really proud. But there have been times that I've been incredibly proud of the country.

I feel, if I criticize my country, it's not because I don't like my country. I love my country. That is my patriotism. I want to make it a better place for my children, for everyone. And if we don't look at what's in front of us, and we allow things to get out of hand because of other vested interests, then as citizens are not doing a good job.

Everything I've ever been a fan of, whether it's Star Wars or the New York Jets, I've also been very hard on at times. It's sort of like, I go to a Jets game, I want them to win, but the minute they fumble the ball, I go, "I f**king knew it! F**king Jets!" That's part of loving something. As long as you love it, you have carte blanche to critique it as well, of course. That's part of being a fan of anything.

There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.