Nationalism Quotes - Page 18

• Europe is as fearful of Islam today as she has been in the past. She now knows that the strength of Islam (which in the past expressed that of the Arabs) has been reborn and has appeared in a new form: Arab nationalism.

  Michel Aflaq

  Past, Europe, Islam

  "On the Way of Resurrection". Book by Michel Aflaq, 1943.

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• Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Loyalty, Inspiration, Mean

  Lester B. Pearson (1970). “Words and Occasions: An Anthology of Speeches and Articles Selected from His Papers”, p.245, Harvard University Press

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• The people's community must not be a mere phrase, but a revolutionary achievement following from the radical carrying out of the basic life needs of the working class. A ruthless battle against corruption! A war against exploitation, freedom for the workers! The elimination of all economic-capitalist influences on national policy...Maintaining a rotten economic system has nothing to do with nationalism, which is an affirmation of the Fatherland. I can love Germany and hate capitalism. Not only can I, I must.

  Joseph Goebbels

  War, Hate, Class

  "Those Damned Nazis" by Joseph Goebbels, Mjölnir, 1932.

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• You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Disappear Completely, Hatred

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• I am particularly interested in the indications that the people seem to understand and approve the necessity of pursuing the course that will prevent a further effort on the part of the German peoples to continue the struggle for world domination, even though they are thoroughly beaten in this war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Struggle, People

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• Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing their Zeal for the Publick, let it not be against those who are perhaps of the same Family, or at least of the same Religion or Nation, but against those who are the open, professed, undoubted Enemies of their Faith, Liberty, and Country.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Women, Shining

  Joseph Addison (1749). “The Spectator”, p.10

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• out of great Russia came three
  dusky syllables workmen took guns and went out to die
  for: Bread, Peace, Land.

  Carl Sandburg

  Gun, Russia, Land

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.

  Gloria Steinem

  Individual Choice, Racism, Choices

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• How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.

  Laurence Sterne

  Country, War, Air

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• There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Freedom, Wind, World

  1934 Speech, Dec.

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• Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Strength, Majesty, Clamor

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• There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Mean, Self, Privilege

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• The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Modern, Courses, Humanism

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• If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Determination, Self, Independence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Tragedy, Limits, Foundation

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• The partition of India in 1947 legitimized the forces of masculinist nationalism and enabled hatred for the "other" to irreparably mutilate a shared anti-colonial legacy and cultural heritage so systematically that the wounds inflicted by the partition are yet to heal.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Hatred, India, Legacy

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Country, Dozen, Britain

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• Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

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• You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

  Huey Newton

  Jail, Revolution, Revolutionary

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• In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Europe, Soul, Haste

  "Europe hands its soul to the right" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2009.

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• I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. My awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power, no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain—especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a Jewish state.

  Albert Einstein

  Army, Fighting, Agreement

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.212, Princeton University Press

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• If [black] nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Hurt, Self

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• If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come, if history were any guide, from the top. It would come through citizen's movements, educating, organizing, agitating, striking, boycotting, demonstrating, threatening those in power with disruption of the stability they needed.

  Howard Zinn

  Democracy, Citizens, Movement

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.674, Routledge

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• The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Forever, Unity, Gone

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

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• In fact, an Islamic revival - already abetted from the outside not only by Iran but also by Saudi Arabia - is likely to become the mobilizing impulse for the increasingly pervasive new nationalisms, determined to oppose any reintegration under Russian - and hence infidel - control.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Islamic, Iran, Arabia

  "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives". Book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1997.

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