Best Nationalism Proverbs
289 Nationalism quotes by 231 unique authors
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
— George Santayana
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
— George Bernard Shaw
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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
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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…
— Peter Singer
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After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge…
— Edward Snowden
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The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
— Thorstein Veblen
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
— Voltaire
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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
— Voltaire
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They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and…
— Henry A. Wallace
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Our true nationality is mankind.
— H.G. Wells
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
— Oscar Wilde
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There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
— Howard Zinn
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Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
— Howard Zinn
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Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval…
— Martin Filler
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All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.
— Geoff Mulgan
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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join…
— Mark Twain
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Damnit! Nationalism should stop at the stratosphere!
— Robert A. Heinlein
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All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in…
— Francois Fenelon
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We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
— William Golding
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Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.
— Eric Hobsbawm
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Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.
— Billy Collins
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A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
— Ronald Reagan
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All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.
— Samuel Adams
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