Nationalism Quotes - Page 8

• Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Ireland And The Irish, Spit, Turns

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• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Integrity, Men

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing". Book edited by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• 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.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mind, India, Flags

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

  Henry Adams

  Organization, Hatred, Politics

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• 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

  Country, Ties, Patriotism

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I think it's fair to say there is a demagogic path that Europeans, South Americans, Asians have pursued, and we know where that leads. It uses xenophobia, it uses paranoia, it uses prejudice, it uses nationalism to really stir people up and to, you know, begin an us-versus-them contrast, which is dangerous and is not something we've had in our politics at a presidential level in America.

  Hillary Clinton

  Xenophobia, Thinking, America

  Interview With Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. April 6, 2016.

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• To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

  H. L. Mencken

  Wisdom, Men, Ideas

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• A spider web of 'patriots for profit', operating from the highest positions of special trust and confidence, have successfully circumvented our constitutional system in pursuit of a New World Order.

  Bo Gritz

  Trust, Order, Special

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• If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Patriotic, Men

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• 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

  Henry Miller

  Farce, Leprosy, Saws

  Henry Miller (1962). “The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud”, p.156, New Directions Publishing

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• Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

  Dale Carnegie

  War, Patriotism, Literature

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  States, Compulsion, Consent

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• The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.

  Arthur Miller

  Christianity, Judaism

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• ...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.

  Howard Zinn

  Song, Blessed, America

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• 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.

  Bell Hooks

  Mean, Thinking, Perfect

  "Bell Hooks and John Perry Barlow talk “prana in cyberspace”". Interview with John Perry Barlow, www.lionsroar.com. 1995.

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• 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.

  Herbert Read

  Equality, Literature, World

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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

  Michael Eric Dyson

  White, Racist, Amplify

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that we have. The rise of nationalism under the guise of patriotism is so effed up, and underneath this banner of "patriotism" is the worst of nationalist rhetoric: racism, xenophobia, sexism, pitting communities against each other, implicitly inciting race wars and stuff like that. So that's the angry part of it, but I'm incredibly optimistic about the potential to redefine what it means to be a "patriotic American" .

  Hasan Minhaj

  War, Optimistic, Mean

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Current nationalism is merely the affirmation of the right of colonial elites to repeat historyand follow the road travelled by the rich toward the universal consumption of internationally marketed packages, a road which can ultimately lead only to universal pollution and universal frustration.

  Ivan Illich

  Frustration, Affirmation, Rich

  Ivan Illich, Lionel Rubinoff (1971). “Tradition and Revolution”, Macmillan of Canada ; New York : St. Martin's Press

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• 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

  Religious, Turkeys, Vision

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• To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened imagination, which can be systematically developed by the spiritual sciences of India and Tibet. We have not yet tamed our own demons of racism, nationalism, sexism, and materialism. We have not yet made peace with a land we took by force and have only partly paid for. We are a teeming conglomeration of people from different tribes who have yet to embrace fully the humanness in one another. And none of us can be really free until all of us are.

  Robert Thurman

  Spiritual, Land, Racism

  FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Dec 14, 2016

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• Part of the reason I'm doing Us + Them tour is to play my part in trying to spread the message that cooperation is a better way to resolve conflicts than confrontation. That bridges are better than walls, that nationalism and exceptionalism is destroying our world and destroying our lives.

  Roger Waters

  Wall, Trying, World

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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

  Cornel West

  Century, Form, Tribalism

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• 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

  Men, Race, Devil

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• Hate crimes have increased since the election of Donald Trump. So I'm not surprised. I'm hopeful, very vigilant. We're seeing the same thing as what happened in 1933, when a politician stokes fears and grievances to rally them for a nationalist cause. But nationalism to the exclusion of other people is not nationalism, that's xenophobia.

  Christian Picciolini

  Hate, People, Hopeful

  Source: chicagoist.com

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