Internationalism Quotes

• The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

  Earl Warren

  Patriotism, Paradox, States

  "Saturday Review" Magazine, (p. 16), October 23, 1971.

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• Nationalism cannot flower if it does not grow in the garden of internationalism.

  Sukarno

  Flower, Garden, Justice

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• Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Political, Social, Certain

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• Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

  George Orwell

  Class, Hatred, Patriotism

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age of rapid change, such as ours, produces many paradoxes. But perhaps the most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

  Earl Warren

  Moving, Age, Paradox

  "Saturday Review" Magazine, (p. 16), October 23, 1971.

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• Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Spiritual, Civilization, Community

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• The forces of internationalism, humanism and solidarity will have to be victorious, or soon there will be nothing left of the human race.

  Andre Vltchek

  Race, Force, Solidarity

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Battle, Engagement, Sovereign

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• Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Struggle, Hands, Sovereign

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• Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Responsibility, Artist

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1939-1949”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• The more internationalism there is in the world, the more nationalism there will always be, as people feel scared of the Other streaming into their neighbourhood and don't always know where to lay their foundations in a world on the move.

  Pico Iyer

  Moving, People, World

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Practice, Division Of Labor, Program

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• Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Spiritual, Art, Character

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• Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are devastating forests or employing children as bonded labour. Globalization is the complete opposite, its rules pit country against country and workers against workers in the blinkered pursuit of international competitiveness.

  Anita Roddick

  Country, Children, Mean

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• Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Profound, Development, Fields

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• In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

  David Korten

  Differences, Economic Globalization, Economic

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• All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Good Man, Bad Man

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• Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally. Nationalities should form the constitutive links in a great world alliance, and must be guaranteed an independent life in the realm of the spiritual and for locally delimited tasks, while economic and political objectives must be guided internationally in a spirit of peaceful cooperation for the promotion of mankind's common interests.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Spiritual, Independent, Civilization

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• A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Tradition, Poet

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• We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.

  Benito Mussolini

  Class, Luxury, Deny

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• You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Disappear Completely, Hatred

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• The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the U.N.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Thinking, Views, America

  "Obama Is Average". SPIEGEL interview, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• Globalization has considerably accelerated in recent years following the dizzying expansion of communications and transport and the equally stupefying transnational mergers of capital. We must not confuse globalization with "internationalism" though. We know that the human condition is universal, that we share similar passions, fears, needs and dreams, but this has nothing to do with the "rubbing out" of national borders as a result of unrestricted capital movements. One thing is the free movement of peoples, the other of money.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Dream, Money, Communication

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• Unilateralism is not internationalism, It is nationalist egotism gone mad.

  Hugh Dalton

  Mad, Gone, Unilateralism

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• Our internationalism is the driver of our nationalism.

  Alex Salmond

  Drivers, Nationalism

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