Nationalism Quotes - Page 6

• [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

  Children, Generations, Burning

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.646, Seven Stories Press

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• 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.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Insecure, Southern, World

  Robert D. Kaplan (2014). “Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History”, p.52, Picador

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• Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Patriotic, Omnipotence, Losing

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• Our enemies may be irrational, even outright insane, driven by nationalism, religion, ethnicity or ideology. They do not fear the United States for its diplomatic skills or the number of automobiles and software programs it produces. They respect only the firepower of our tanks, planes and helicopter gunships.

  Ronald Reagan

  Skills, Numbers, Ethnicity

  Ronald Reagan (1998). “A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan”

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• I love my country, not my government.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, Patriotic, Government

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ventura from Jan 17, 2011

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• If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Standards, Knows

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• Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an allegiance toward our elected officials, toward our founding fathers, toward our institutions, toward the preservation of this form of government that we have. Patriotism, nationalism, and sovereignty, all that proves that children are sick because a truly well individual is one who has rejected all of those things, and is truly the international child of the future.

  Chester Middlebrook Pierce

  Children, Father, School

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

  Winston Churchill

  Keys, Unions, Riddle

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• Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

  Richard Aldington

  Military, Responsibility, Patriotism And Nationalism

  Colonel's Daughter (1931) pt. 1, ch. 6

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• We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

  Dave Barry

  Strong, Patriotic, Jail

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• Those who say that we want nationality, they are standing against Islam....We have no use for the nationalists. Moslems are useful for us. Islam is against nationality.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Islam, Use, Want

  Mehregan Magazine, Volume 12, Numbers 1 & 2 (p. 16), 2003.

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• The pornographers are not a deviation from the norm. Their presence in the mainstream shouldn't be surprising, because they represent mainstream values: The logic of domination and subordination that is central to patriarchy, hyper-patriotic nationalism, white supremacy, and a predatory corporate capitalism.

  Robert Jensen

  Patriotic, White, Logic

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• With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Humility, Alive, Enough

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• New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determinat ion, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism/ extreme nationalism culture.

  Deepak Chopra

  Religious, Military, Healing

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• IPL does not allow Pakistani players because they are dangerous.

  Alastair Cook

  Sports, Player, India

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• Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

  Blaise Pascal

  Peace, Men, Rivers

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• A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

  Ronald Reagan

  Borders, Migration, Nations

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• It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Country, Greatness, Patriotism

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Hippie, Patriotic

  Bertrand Russell (1962). “Has Man a Future?”

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• Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

  Bertrand Russell

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Government

  "Sceptical Essays". Ch. 13: Freedom in Society. Book by Bertrand Russell, 1928.

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

  Raisa Gorbacheva

  Self, People, Growth

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• Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man - with his mouth.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Patriotic, Men

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.121, Univ of California Press

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• 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

  Blood, Too Much, Libya

  "Nonproliferation Norms". Book by Maria Rost Rublee, 2009.

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• A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.

  Pierre Berton

  Making Love, Canada, Patriotism And Nationalism

  Quoted in The Canadian, 22 Dec. 1973

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• A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

  George William Curtis

  Loyalty, Country, Memorial Day

  George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

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