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• 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.

  Arthur Henderson

  War, Gone, Length

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• The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.

  Arthur Henderson

  Economic, Revival

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• 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.

  Ameen Rihani

  Sublime, Unity, Deeds

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• The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

  Clara Barton

  Father, Blood, Patriotism

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• Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

  Annie Besant

  Inspiring, Thinking, Silent

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

  Smedley Butler

  Peace, Military, War

  "War Is A Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Benefits, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

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• 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.

  Rachel Maddow

  Believe, Racism, People

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• All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.

  Samuel Adams

  Truth, Liberty, Politics

  Samuel Adams (1906). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

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• A decade ago young people en masse began declaring themselves as Yugoslavs. It was a form of rising Yugoslav nationalism, which was a reaction to brotherhood and unity and a feeling of belonging to a single socialist self-managing society. This pleased me greatly.

  Josip Broz Tito

  Self, People, Feelings

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• To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Government, Corruption, Obligation

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• ...I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform parliament or prevent the union or to bring about the millennium. I speak only for myself, mind - it is my own truth alone - but man as part of a movement or a crowd is indifferent to me. He is inhuman. And I have nothing to do with nations, or nationalism. The only feelings I have - for what they are - are for men as individuals; my loyalties, such as they may be, are to private persons alone.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Loyalty, Men, Feelings

  Patrick O'Brian (1990). “Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1)”, p.194, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement can encourage the wrong kinds of distance, and if the nationalism we see sparking up around the globe arises from too narrow and fixed a sense of loyalty, the internationalism that's coming to birth may reflect too roaming and undefined a sense of belonging.

  Pico Iyer

  Loyalty, Distance, Mean

  Pico Iyer (2011). “The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home”, p.37, Vintage

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• Before our eyes we have the results of ideologies such as Marxism, Nazism and fascism, and also of myths like racial superiority, nationalism and ethnic exclusivism. No less pernicious, though not always as obvious, are the effects of materialistic consumerism, in which the exaltation of the individual and the selfish satisfaction of personal aspirations become the ultimate goal of life. In this outlook, the negative effects on others are considered completely irrelevant.

  Pope John Paul II

  Selfish, Eye, Goal

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• Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Aggressive, Destructive

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.116, A&C Black

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Break Through, India, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.205, Rajpal & Sons

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Country, Race

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• No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Responsibility, Conquer, Accepting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pillow, Nations

  Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Indian Home Rule”, p.77, The Floating Press

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• I think that parochialism is built into many kinds of nationalism and educational institutions in which children are brought up to treat their own culture as the unmarked case, and to mark the products of other culture.

  Jay L. Garfield

  Children, Educational, Thinking

  "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.

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

  Arthur Keith

  Momentum, Evolution, Human Nature

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• 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.

  Ben Domenech

  Powerful, Thinking, Pockets

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Like Trump`s presidential bid, the Brexit campaign has been driven largely by fears of cultural penetration, immigrant invasion, and the genuine crisis of Middle East refugees dying to get into Europe, all channeled into a kind of inward-turning form of ethno-nationalism.

  Chris Hayes

  Europe, Presidential, Dying

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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

  Ernest Gellner

  Doe, Tribalism, Dare

  Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly (2008). “Nations and Nationalism”, p.84, Cornell University Press

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• The very nature of economics is rooted in nationalism. ... It [was] developed ... in the hope of throwing light upon questions of policy. But policy means nothing unless there is an authority to carry it out, and authorities are national.

  Joan Robinson

  Mean, Light, Economics

  Joan Robinson (1962). “Economic philosophy”, p.124, Transaction Publishers

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