Nationalism Quotes - Page 19

• We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

  Sarojini Naidu

  Inspiring, Courage, Speech

  Sarojini Naidu, Makarand R. Paranjape (1996). “Sarojini Naidu, selected letters, 1890s to 1940s”

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• Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.

  Vallabhbhai Patel

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Unity

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• We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  Inspiring, Believe, People

  Lal Bahadur Shastri (1965). “Speeches, June 1964-May 1965”

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• Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself.

  Chandra Shekhar Azad

  Motivational, Inspiring, Fighting

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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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• Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

  Stuart Chase

  War, Atoms, World

  "Pennsylvania Technology", Volume 1, No. 3, 1990.

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• The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.

  Terry Eagleton

  Struggle, Heart, Political

  "Culture conundrum" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2008.

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• In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that redundant and that everyone just wants to be like America.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Thinking, America, Important

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• The economic philosophy of black nationalism only means that our people need to be re-educated into the importance of controlling the economy of the community in which we live, which means that we won't have to constantly be involved in picketing and boycotting other people in other communities in order to get jobs.

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, Philosophy, Mean

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• When I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies were collective, both socialism/communism and nationalism.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Junk, Privacy, Socialism

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• The underpinning of immigration concerns is xenophobia and racism and nationalism.

  David Cross

  Xenophobia, Racism, Immigration

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Inspirational, Freedom, Patriotic

  "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy". "See It Now" on CBS, www.lib.berkeley.edu. March 09, 1954.

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• I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Different, Fields

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• I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real.

  Peter Singer

  Strong, Real, Believe

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• Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.

  Robert Byron

  People, Reason, Modern

  Robert Byron (2016). “The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded”, p.6, MarcoPolo

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• Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead.

  George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

  Stones, Devolution

  "Tony Blair ‘let Nationalist genie out of the bottle’ in Scotland" by Paul Gilbride, www.express.co.uk. April 8, 2015.

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• China can draw on a talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the United States can draw on a talent pool of 7 billion and recombine them in a diverse culture that enhances creativity in a way that ethnic Han nationalism cannot.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Creativity, People, Culture

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• I want to be proud of this country [the USA], but when aspects of our policy don't align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them. Being complicit because it's the home team is nationalism, not patriotism.

  Shepard Fairey

  Country, Team, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Americans and British respondents don't want to let the German people off the hook. They make the case that if you get rid of Hitler, some other leader apart from Hitler would have emerged and, because of the structural constant of German nationalism, would have exploited German national feeling and produce the same kind of events no matter what.

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld

  People, Leader, Feelings

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's only important to differentiate between patriotism and nationalism. I speak of enlightened patriotism.

  Charlotte Knobloch

  Important, Speak, Enlightened

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• Our internationalism is the driver of our nationalism.

  Alex Salmond

  Drivers, Internationalism

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