Nationalism Quotes

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein

Mankind, Disease, Infantile

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
George Orwell

Power, Hunger, Tempered

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
Pope John Paul II

Freedom, Today, True

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Charles de Gaulle

Love, Patriotism, Hate

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
Muammar al-Gaddafi

Whose, Nations, Subject

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.
Bell Hooks

Love, Fear, Thinking

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke

Men, True, Long

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
Margaret Atwood

Boring, Beginning, Cultural

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
Irving Babbitt

Again, Unity, Push

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
David Bailey

Work, Idea, Reflect

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 Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real.
Peter Singer

Strong, Real, Picture

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

Alone, Different, Holding

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
Herbert Read

Power, Freedom, Equality

I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.
Arthur Henderson

Values, Economic, Survive

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.
Arthur Henderson

War, State, Gone

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

Economic, General, Drive

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

Made, Opposite, Conquered

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
Michael Ignatieff

Patriotism, Between

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

Heart, Struggle, Political

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.
Todd Gitlin

Life, Patriotism, Real

The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.
Muammar al-Gaddafi

Money, Put, Times

On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.
Christian Lous Lange

Name, Simply, Exist

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

Countries, Britain, Civic

In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

War, Passion, Different

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.
Christopher Dawson

Strong, Control, Enough

I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
Feist

Good, War, American

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

Life, History, Question

Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.
Jack Schwartz

Old, National, Jewish

Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.
Jack Schwartz

Become, Islamic, Radical

Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.
John Nelson Darby

God, Children, Words

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