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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. -- George Orwell
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. -- Albert Einstein
Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
Nationalism is both a vital medicine and a dangerous drug -- Geoffrey Blainey
Nationalism ... is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you. -- Daniel Fried
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. -- Charles de Gaulle
Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that. -- Alija Izetbegovic
Nationalism is cured by traveling. -- Shakira
Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead -- George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
Nationalism is the measels of mankind. -- Albert Einstein
Damnit! Nationalism should stop at the stratosphere! -- Robert A. Heinlein
Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nationalism is just racism with a flag. -- Peter Joseph
We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism -- Ho Chi Minh
Nationalism cannot flower if it does not grow in the garden of internationalism. -- Sukarno
Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars. -- Orhan Pamuk
Nationalism as we know it, is the result of a form of state-sponsored branding. -- Bryant McGill
Nationalism as we know it, is the result of a form of state-sponsored branding. -- Bryant McGill
Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression. -- Albert Einstein
Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God. -- Billy Collins
Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union -- Francois Mitterrand
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness. -- Raisa Gorbacheva
Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist... -- Ernest Gellner
Race, Religion, Ethnic Pride, Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people you have never met -- Doug Stanhope
Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. -- Arundhati Roy
In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds. -- Tom Metzger
Dylan Thomas, asked what he thought of Welsh Nationalism, replied in three words, two of which were 'Welsh Nationalism.' -- Avram Davidson
Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty. -- George Will
Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in. -- Doug Stanhope
Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces. -- Storm Jameson
Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant role. -- Samuel P. Huntington
Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people," to the exclusion of other human beings. -- Bryant McGill
[N]o serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so. -- Eric Hobsbawm
It is only on the basis of undiluted Nationalism and of perfect justice and impartiality that the Indian Army of Liberation can be built up. -- Subhas Chandra Bose
Nationalism and patriotism are two sides of the same coin, and the most nationalistic / patriotic country in the last 300 years was Germany during the Third Reich. -- Gene Weingarten
Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language. -- Karl Kraus
Patriotism is (like) loving your family whether it is good or bad, while always striving to make it better. Nationalism simply insists 'Hey my family is the best'.. -- Peter Jennings
The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence. -- Douglas Dunn
Nationalism and ethnic pride, in the long run, delay human development, and the misery they cause must be recognized. If enough people saw that , maybe we wouldn't have so many wars. -- Harvey Pekar
Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience. -- Anthony Daniels
Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, satyam [the true], shivam [the god], sundaram [the beautiful]. Nationalism in India has ... roused the creative faculties which for centuries had been lying dormant in our people. -- Subhas Chandra Bose
Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it. -- John Nelson Darby
Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause more wars and more death and more destruction to the soul and to human life than anything else. -- Oliver Stone
Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. -- Arundhati Roy
[Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands. -- Howard Zinn
Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that. -- Alija Izetbegovic
Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance. -- George Bernard Shaw
Church and State should be united in the White Man's religion.- Global White Racial Loyalty and Solidarity must be our constant goal.- Race is everything. In order to survive and prosper, the White Race must overcome its five main enemies: Judaism, Christianity, Communism, Liberalism and Nationalism. -- Ben Klassen
Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one's belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote. -- E. B. White
Our true nationality is mankind. -- H. G. Wells
I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism. -- Michael Ignatieff
One of the great attractions of patriotism -- Aldous Huxley
Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism. -- Said Musa
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. -- George Jean Nathan
I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. -- Clarence Darrow
All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism. -- Geoff Mulgan
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. -- Eric Hoffer
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. -- George Santayana
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. -- Howard Zinn
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. -- Guy de Maupassant
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. -- George Bernard Shaw
I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism. -- David Bailey
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. -- William Ralph Inge
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I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. -- Eugene V. Debs
A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich. -- Robert Frost
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language. -- Hilaire Belloc
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! -- Albert Einstein
A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples. -- Emily Greene Balch
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. -- Thorstein Veblen
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. -- George McGovern
No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy. -- Dayananda Saraswati
I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war. -- Feist
Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour. -- Lance Henriksen
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. -- Arthur C. Clarke
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. -- Mark Twain
I don't believe in nationalism. I think it's a bunch of slogans. It's a bunch of poor attempts at creating pride. My problem with nationalism is that it becomes exclusionary. We start to exclude people. -- Miguel Syjuco
That's a mistake I think that a lot of Western observers make is to assume that Korean nationalism is hundreds if not thousands of years old. When in fact nationalism is incompatible with Korean Confucian tradition. -- Brian Reynolds Myers
In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism - mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but they couldn't deal with half a million people demonstrating in the streets. -- Noam Chomsky
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. -- John F. Kennedy
New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture. -- Deepak Chopra
I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family. -- Sukarno
I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets people anywhere except near a pile of dead bodies. I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it. -- Dylan Moran
The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. -- Pope John Paul II
I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I never felt them. I liked how open in most ways Catalan nationalism was, compared to Irish nationalism. I disliked the violence and cruelty in Ireland. -- Colm Toibin
On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does. -- Christian Lous Lange
Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war. -- Helen Caldicott
Our internationalism is the driver of our nationalism. -- Alex Salmond
Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries. -- Bryant H. McGill
Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it. -- Reza Aslan
Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal. -- Arthur Miller
The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries. -- Michael Ignatieff
Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism. -- Orhan Pamuk
The underpinning of immigration concerns is xenophobia and racism and nationalism. -- David Cross
Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace. -- Bertrand Russell
The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality. -- Franz Grillparzer
I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism. -- William Gibson
Turkish football serves the cause of nationalism, but not of the nation. -- Orhan Pamuk
The real choice we have to make is between peace and nationalism. -- Orhan Pamuk
It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round. -- Ernest Gellner
Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. -- Stuart Chase
Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism. -- Jacob T. Schwartz
Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism. -- Jacob T. Schwartz
This European and really pro-Russian nationalism is seeping into America. It's very disturbing. -- Glenn Beck
Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism. -- Arthur Henderson
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century. -- Cornel West
It's only important to differentiate between patriotism and nationalism. I speak of enlightened patriotism. -- Charlotte Knobloch
After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world. -- Stephen Kinzer

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