Quotes about Nationalism

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. Votes: 8

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. Votes: 7

Nationalism is the measels of mankind. Votes: 4

We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Nationalism is cured by traveling. Votes: 3

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism. Votes: 3

Nationalism is just racism with a flag. Votes: 3

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin. Votes: 3

Nationalism is both a vital medicine and a dangerous drug Votes: 3

Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression. Votes: 3

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist... Votes: 3

Nationalism ... is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you. Votes: 3

In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds. Votes: 3

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. Votes: 3

Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant role. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

[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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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'.. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Our true nationality is mankind. Votes: 2

Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead Votes: 2

Damnit! Nationalism should stop at the stratosphere! Votes: 2

One of the great attractions of patriotism Votes: 2

Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward. Votes: 2

Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism. Votes: 2

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites. Votes: 2

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. Votes: 2

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. Votes: 2

All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism. Votes: 2

Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars. Votes: 2

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. Votes: 2

Nationalism cannot flower if it does not grow in the garden of internationalism. Votes: 2

Nationalism as we know it, is the result of a form of state-sponsored branding. Votes: 2

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. Votes: 2

Nationalism as we know it, is the result of a form of state-sponsored branding. Votes: 2

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. Votes: 2

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God. Votes: 2

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. Votes: 2

Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union Votes: 2

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems. Votes: 2

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. Votes: 2

Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness. Votes: 2

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism. Votes: 2

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Votes: 2

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. Votes: 2

Race, Religion, Ethnic Pride, Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people you have never met Votes: 2

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. Votes: 2

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality. Votes: 2

Dylan Thomas, asked what he thought of Welsh Nationalism, replied in three words, two of which were 'Welsh Nationalism.' Votes: 2

A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within. Votes: 2

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. Votes: 2

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich. Votes: 2

Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty. Votes: 2

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language. Votes: 2

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in. Votes: 2

Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces. Votes: 2

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

[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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 1

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war. Votes: 0

Our internationalism is the driver of our nationalism. Votes: 0

Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries. Votes: 0

Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse. Votes: 0

When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it. Votes: 0

Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive. Votes: 0

The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal. Votes: 0

The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. Votes: 0

The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism. Votes: 0

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries. Votes: 0

Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life. Votes: 0

I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism. Votes: 0

The underpinning of immigration concerns is xenophobia and racism and nationalism. Votes: 0

Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace. Votes: 0

The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality. Votes: 0

I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism. Votes: 0

Turkish football serves the cause of nationalism, but not of the nation. Votes: 0

The real choice we have to make is between peace and nationalism. Votes: 0

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round. Votes: 0

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. Votes: 0

Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism. Votes: 0

Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism. Votes: 0

This European and really pro-Russian nationalism is seeping into America. It's very disturbing. Votes: 0

Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit. Votes: 0

The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism. Votes: 0

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century. Votes: 0

It's only important to differentiate between patriotism and nationalism. I speak of enlightened patriotism. Votes: 0

After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world. Votes: 0

African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism Votes: 0

African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism. Votes: 0

Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled. Votes: 0

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar Votes: 0

All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism. Votes: 0

The fueling of anti-Turkish sentiment in Europe is resulting in an anti-European, indiscriminate nationalism in Turkey. Votes: 0

In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul. Votes: 0

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family. Votes: 0

People aren't really afraid of my views. They are just afraid of the word 'nationalism.' Votes: 0

Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism. Votes: 0

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool. Votes: 0

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem. Votes: 0

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism. Votes: 0

We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism. Votes: 0

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution. Votes: 0

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche. Votes: 0

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things. Votes: 0

My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual. Votes: 0

My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit. Votes: 0

For Pakistan, Kashmir represents the infeasibility of secular nationalism and underscores the need for an Islamic theocracy in the subcontinent. Votes: 0

Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. Votes: 0

Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism. Votes: 0

When you want a nation, that's called nationalism... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation. Votes: 0

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere. Votes: 0

The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth Votes: 0

All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents. Votes: 0

You can be a bigot in the US, but you can't come out and openly declare your support for racial nationalism. Votes: 0

[Alex] Haley's objective was quite different. Haley was a republican. He was an integrationist. He was very opposed to black nationalism. Votes: 0

The existence of excessive nationalism is a symptom of a deeper problem in the collective consciousness, which is continually being exploited. Votes: 0

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?' Votes: 0

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism. Votes: 0

Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism. Votes: 0

... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism. Votes: 0

All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism. Votes: 0

I am not going to believe in militant nationalism, which cultivates a culture of intolerance, Can't we think of a solution without violence. Votes: 0

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more. Votes: 0

"Make America great again." You know, to a lot of people, well, that's jingoistic. That's nationalism. That's cheap, that's rank, that's not a movement. Votes: 0

Sporting achievements bestow a sense of unification on the cultures and societies in which they take place and create an outpouring of nationalism and pride. Votes: 0

For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion. Votes: 0

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war. Votes: 0

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us. Votes: 0

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism. Votes: 0

War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism. Votes: 0

The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart. Votes: 0

We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words. Votes: 0

Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i. Votes: 0

German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature. Votes: 0

I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars. Votes: 0

What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. Votes: 0

The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of prosperous peasants at one throw. Votes: 0

The Olympics are too powerful. I hate sports - they generate so much nationalism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, economic exploitation, displacement of communities to build worthless bankrupt stadiums. Votes: 0

Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many. Votes: 0

My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live. Votes: 0

Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness. Votes: 0

When I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies were collective, both socialism/communism and nationalism. Votes: 0

I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the nationalism of the Palestinian people. Votes: 0

Malcolm X never renounced and never stepped away from a strong commitment to black nationalism and black self-determination. That's absolutely clear if you do any analysis of his speeches. Votes: 0

...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed. Votes: 0

I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it. Votes: 0

America is a new country, and maybe patriotism helps Americans create unity, since it is a melting pot. But nationalism in Europe has a strong history, as you may know. Votes: 0

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism. Votes: 0

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought. Votes: 0

Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation. Votes: 0

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals Votes: 0

Those policies [of Jean-Marie Le Pen ]I find repellent. I believe many people right across consist the world do. There is no future in that type of narrow minded racism and nationalism. Votes: 0

In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that redundant and that everyone just wants to be like America. Votes: 0

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. Votes: 0

The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism "¦ In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism. Votes: 0

There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise. Votes: 0

I think it`s a message of economic nationalism. It`s obviously one that has bubbled up before in certain pockets, but it`s never been the sort of powerful phenomenon that it is today. Votes: 0

I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real. Votes: 0

In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust. Votes: 0

The closer one gets to either the eastern or the southern fringe of the German-speaking world-the closer one gets, in other words, to the threatening and more numerous Slavs-the more insecure and dangerous nationalism becomes. Votes: 0