Nationalism Quotes - Page 11

• Charity begins at home.

  Terence

  Life, Home, Charity

  Terence (1767). “Terence's Comedies: Translated Into English Prose, as Near as the Propriety of the Two Languages Will Admit; Together with the Original Latin from the Best Editions ... with Notes Pointing Out the Connexion of the Several Scenes, and an Index Critical and Phraseological ...”, p.80

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• Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty.

  George W. Bush

  Lying, September, Blame

  First Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 10 November 2001, U.N. Headquarters, New York

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• The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen. ... At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. ... Public extravagance begets extravagance among the people.

  Grover Cleveland

  Appreciation, Government, People

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.

  Elbridge Gerry

  America, People, Evil

  Constitutional Convention, May 31, 1787.

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• I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as absolute and palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Fall, Law, Punishment

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.24

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• The patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty; and in proportion as the trial is severe, firmness under it becomes more requisite and praiseworthy. It requires, indeed, self-command. But that will be fortified in proportion as the calls for its exercise are repeated.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Exercise, Self

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.37

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• [A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of the people; which consists in the enjoyment of life and liberty and the right of acquiring property, and generally of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. That the people have an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform or change their government whenever it be found adverse or inadequate to the purpose of its institution.

  James Madison

  Government, People, Safety

  James Madison (1999). “Writings”

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• [T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is] to refine and enlarge the public views by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations.

  James Madison

  Country, Sacrifice, Small Numbers

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• Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Race, Hatred

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Hair, Giving, House

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• The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

  Robert Walpole

  Spring, Mushrooms, Ideas

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• We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Patriotism, Literature, Behavior

  "Romulus the Great" by Friedrich Durrenmatt, act I, 1956.

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• Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

  Robert Walpole

  Passion, Gentleman, Patriotism

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• I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

  Marianne Moore

  Dissatisfied

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.114, Penguin

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• The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

  Andre Malraux

  Dream, Ideas, Giving

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• The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of british rule in India.

  Lala Lajpat Rai

  Inspiring, British Rule In India, Nails

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• 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

  Mistake, Thinking, Years

  "North Korea racist, not communist, says author". Interview with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. February 17, 2010.

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• When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed to bring black people together and elevate black people, join that church. Join that church. If you see where the NAACP is preaching and practicing that which is designed to make black nationalism materialize, join the NAACP. Join any kind of organization, civic, religious, fraternal, political, or otherwise that's based on lifting the black man up and making him master of his own community.

  Malcolm X

  Religious, Philosophy, Past

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

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

  Cherrie Moraga

  Earth, Female, Body

  Cherríe Moraga, Irma Mayorga (2001). “The Hungry Woman”

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• We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. We need to eliminate nationalism and tribalism and become Earthlings. And as Earthlings, we need to recognize that all the other species that live on this planet are also fellow citizens and also Earthlings. This is a planet of incredible diversity of life-forms; it is not a planet of one species as many of us believe.

  Paul Watson

  Believe, Diversity, Citizens

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• I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century, a time when the spirit of the community, the non-ideological blend of the emotional and rational and the resistance to categories and forms will emerge through the forces of anti-nationalism to provide us with a new kind of society. I call this process the Judaization of Christianity because Christianity will be the vehicle through which this society becomes Jewish.

  Martin A. Siegel

  Emotional, Community, Resistance

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• There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

  Todd Gitlin

  Real, Believe, Attachment

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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• We must formulate, with both imagination and restraint, a new approach to the Middle East - not pressing our case so hard that the Arabs feel their neutrality and nationalism are threatened ... while at the same time trying to hasten the inevitable Arab acceptance of the permanence of Israel ... We must ... seek a permanent settlement among Arabs and Israelis based not on an armed truce but on mutual self-interest.

  John F. Kennedy

  Acceptance, Self, Israel

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• 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.

  Christopher Dawson

  Strong, League, Enlightenment

  Christopher Dawson (2010). “The Crisis of Western Education (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.94, CUA Press

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• Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace.

  Bertrand Russell

  Running, Long, World

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