Being true Quote by George Orwell

If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.

— George Orwell

We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.

— Clement Attlee

“To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what…

— Timothy Snyder

Let's be clear: a nationalist is not a patriot.

— Frans Timmermans

No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.

— Eric Hobsbawm

Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace.

— Bertrand Russell

Nationalism and anti-nationalism is a matter of perception. You cannot mandate who is a nationalist and what is not.

— Kapil Sibal

“Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception. Every nationalist is capable of the most flagrant dishonesty, but he is also — since he is conscious…

— George Orwell

Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.

— William Jennings Bryan

“Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call “Nationalist Fundamentalism”, which is as dangerous as “Religious Fundamentalism”.”

— Abhijit Naskar

In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and, in particular,…

— Ernest Gellner

“To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which…

— Timothy Snyder