N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nationalism is the measels of mankind.”
“Nationalism is the political manifestation of a folk's collective unconscious; heathenism/ satanism is the spiritual manifestation. Both ascend from the same source. Its therefore no coincidence that occultism and nationalism/facism have both claimed common adherents prior to the present interest in both by youth.”
Source: Lords of Chaos
“Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union”
“Nationalism manufactures more widows and orphans than disease and disaster.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.”
“Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.”
Source: War Talk
“Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.”
Source: War Talk
“Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars.”
“Nationalism: the curious notion that barbarism becomes a virtue when it reaches tribal proportions.”
“Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.”
“Nationalism är det största hotet mot freden. Fundamentalism är det största hotet mot harmoni.”
Source: Världsviking: Gudomlig Poesi
“Nationalism är terrorism.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.”
“Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.”
“Nationalismus ist Terrorismus.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“Nationalist chimps sell war in the name of security,
Stoneage civilians rush to bulk-buy graveyard plots.
Merchant of murder, you, yell about peacekeeping,
While you feast on nationalism like wet little cods!”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“nationalist governments tend to have trade difficulties.”
Source: Infomocracy
“Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.”
Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms
“Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Germany needs peace and desires peace!”
“Nationalists and globalists hate each other, but really they are philosophical twins; the only thing separating them is degree. A nationalist wants to centralize the nation, a globalist wants to centralize the globe[...] most nationalists are just as bad as globalists, insofar as few want localism and federalism.”
“Nationalists mark borders by raising guns,
like dogs mark their territory by raising legs.
Monkeys seek refuge in archaic sovereignty,
Human am I, my refuge is the human race.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Nationalitet förlorat, inget förlorat - religion förlorat, inget förlorat - traditioner förlorat, inget förlorat - mänskligheten förlorat, allt förlorat.”
Source: Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
“Nationality is an artificial political grouping of population usually centring around a single language as an expression of traditions and aspirations. Nationality can, however, exist independently of language but states thus formed, such as Belgium or Austria, are far less stable than those where a uniform language is prevalent, as, for example, France or England.”
Source: The Passing of the Great Race or the Racial Basis of European History
“Nationality is no excuse for ignorance.”
“Nationality is not a universal human principle but an historical, local fact...Every nation, even a small one, has its own character, its own particular way of life and manner of speaking, feeling, thinking, and behaving. These distinctive features are the essence of nationality, the product of a nation's entire history and conditions of existence. Every nation, like every individual, is of necessity what it is, and has an unquestionable right to be itself. So-called national rights consist precisely of this.”
Source: Bakunin: Statism and Anarchy
“Nationality is the aggregated individuality of the greatest men of the nation.”
“Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.”
“Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“Nationality isn't soul.”
Source: Rembrandt's Hat
“Nationality lost, nothing lost - religion lost, nothing lost - traditions lost, nothing lost - humanity lost, everything lost.”
Source: Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
“Nationality started as something natural, but we should not be restrained by the old politics that make up these clear lines. It should have its own way of evolving. In some places, it will evolve slower and in others, faster. It's like the mountains, the ocean and the rivers. It has its own geological forms. Societies cannot be flat. But during change, human rights, human dignity and free speech have to be protected. Otherwise, we'll be going backward.”
“Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age... because "everything is global, man!"”
“Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual.”
“Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.”
“Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.”
“Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective.”
“Nationally, the voter was given a choice between Johnson and Goldwater. If an individual shared Goldwater's hostility to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, or feared a Negro moving into the neighborhood or getting a job, he could vote for Goldwater and express these sentiments, but at a price: i.e., he would be casting his ballot for a man who was also utterly irresponsible on the question of war and peace; whose primitive, contradictory economics threatened economic crisis and depression; and whose mental powers seemed to be those of an amiable incompetent.”
Source: Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
“Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.”
“Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.”
Source: Ovid's Metamorphoses: In Latin and English, Translated by the Most Eminent Hands. With Historical Explications of the Fables, Written in French by the Abbot Banier, ... Translated Into English. Adorned with Sculptures by B. Picart, and Other Able Masters
“Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.”
“Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.”
Source: The Campaner Thal; or, Discourses on the immortality of the soul, tr. by J. Bauer
“Nations and peoples are largely the stories they feed themselves. If they tell themselves stories that are lies, they will suffer the future consequences of those lies. If they tell themselves stories that face their own truths, they will free their histories for future flowerings.”
Source: Birds of Heaven
“Nations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology.”
“Nations are an historic reality in Europe. They all have different histories, and they joined the EU at very different times and under widely differing circumstances. I was mayor of Warsaw for three years and always in favor of Poland joining the EU. But I also experienced how we had to implement EU regulations that were completely inappropriate to our situation.”
“Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.”
Source: The Big Time: Top Science Fiction
“Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This is not local self-government. It is not American. It is not the method which has made this country what it is. We can not maintain the western standard of civilization on that theory. If it is supported at all, it will have to be supported on the principle of individual responsibility.”
“Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.”
Source: Iqbal, the poet of tomorrow
“Nations are born out of travail and suffering”
Source: Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)
“Nations are built overtime.
Nations are destroyed overnight.”