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• 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.

  Juan Cole

  War, Iraq, Administration

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• 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.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Israel, Tea, Needs

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• Our success in America will involve two circles: Black Nationalism and Islam–it will take BN [Black Nationalism] to make our people conscious of doing for self & then Islam will provide the spiritual guidance. BN [Black Nationalism] will link us to Africa and Islam will link us spiritually to Africa, Arabia & Asia.

  Malcolm X

  Spiritual, Self, Circles

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• 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.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Wall, Loneliness, Race

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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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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• The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Government, Principles, Morality

  Jacob G. Hornberger (1997). “The tyranny of gun control”

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• In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and, in particular, that ethnic boundaries within a given state a contingency already formally excluded by the principle in its general formulation should not separate the power holders from the rest.

  Ernest Gellner

  Cutting, Political, Principles

  Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly (2008). “Nations and Nationalism”, p.1, Cornell University Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• There's a difference between a Nazi and a German.

  Samuel Fuller

  Differences, Nazi

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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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• Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Fire, Our Generation

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

  David Bailey

  Thinking, Ideas, Doe

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• We should not rule out the possibility that Trump's diplomacy could deescalate Middle East strife and international tensions, give the US a lower global profile and enable a more balanced world order to emerge, doing most of its damage here at home, through moves to implement his vision of nativist nationalism.

  Richard A. Falk

  Moving, Home, Order

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• "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.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, People, Movement

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• 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.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Two, Evil

  Oliver Stone, Charles L. P. Silet (2001). “Oliver Stone: Interviews”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• No Irish nationalist could support any treaty which institutionalizes British government claims to a part of Irish national territory. Indeed, the term - 'constitutional nationalism'- used by Mr.Mallon (SDLP) and his colleagues to describe their political philosophy is a contradiction in terms. The only constitutional nationalist in Ireland today is Sean McBride. He puts his nationalism within a framework of Irish constitutionality. Mr. Mallon, however, puts his within the framework of British constitutionality. Irish nationalism within British constitutionality is a contradiction in terms.

  Gerry Adams

  Philosophy, Government, Support

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