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Nationalism Quotes
Source: The World According to Dave Barry
“We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.”
“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
“Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.”
“People aren't really afraid of my views. They are just afraid of the word 'nationalism.'”
“You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945
“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.”
Source: In defence of English cooking
“In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.”
Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism
“It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.”
“The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.”
“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.”
Source: Has Man a Future?
“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”
“Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.”
Source: The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs
“To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.”
Source: The letters of George Santayana
“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”
Source: Jesus and the Disinherited
Source: Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers
“Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.”
Source: Collected tales, sketches, speeches, & essays: 1891-1910
Source: Absentee Ownership: Business Enterprise in Recent Times : the Case of America
“It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.”
Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression
“Our true nationality is mankind.”
Source: The Outline of History: The Roman Empire to the Great War
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
Source: Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian
“All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
Source: Lord of the Flies
“Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.”