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289 Nationalism quotes by 231 unique authors
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I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.
— Brock Chisholm
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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…
— Jacob G. Hornberger
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One of the great attractions of patriotism
— Aldous Huxley
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I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.
— Marianne Moore
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Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges…
— Erich Fromm
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The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.
— William Faulkner
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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
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You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone.
— Will Rogers
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The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of british rule in India.
— Lala Lajpat Rai
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Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
— Muammar al-Gaddafi
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The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to…
— Muammar al-Gaddafi
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I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
— George Galloway
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
— Charles de Gaulle
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I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.
— William Gibson
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
— Clarence Darrow
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I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
— Eugene V. Debs
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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
— Albert Einstein
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
— Albert Einstein
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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
— Albert Einstein
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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
— Eric Hoffer
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I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming…
— Bell Hooks
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
— William Ralph Inge
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I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
— Michael Ignatieff
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There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.
— Michael Ignatieff
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