Nationalism Quotes

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

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness.

Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals

Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.

Nationalism is cured by traveling.

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

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism … In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism.

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.

When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.

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

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

Our internationalism is the driver of our nationalism.

Damnit! Nationalism should stop at the stratosphere!

The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Nationalism is both a vital medicine and a dangerous drug

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.

In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars.

My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.

It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.

You can be a bigot in the US, but you can't come out and openly declare your support for racial nationalism.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.

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

I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the nationalism of the Palestinian people.

America is a new country, and maybe patriotism helps Americans create unity, since it is a melting pot. But nationalism in Europe has a strong history, as you may know.

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

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

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

Think of Europe in the 20th century. Two World Wars generated by nationalism. France, Germany, Britain fighting with each other.

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