Nationalism Quotes - Page 10

• I don't like the idea of nationalism, but on the other hand, I do see that there is a difference between British art, German art and Chinese art. This is because of the history, because each country has different history and each country reads and teaches that history differently.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Country, Art, Hands

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak

  Inspiring, Freedom, Tree

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• Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Two, Meetings, Nations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Rewards, Virtue, Nations

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• No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Political, Too Much, Serious

  "Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality". Book by Eric Hobsbawm (p. 12), May 24, 1990.

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• Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways, neutrality means accepting the way things are now. It is a world of clashing interests – war against peace, nationalism against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitism – and it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Moving, Mean

  Howard Zinn (2009). “Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Nations, Conditions

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• That's a mistake I think that a lot of Western observers make is to assume that Korean nationalism is hundreds if not thousands of years old. When in fact nationalism is incompatible with Korean Confucian tradition.

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Mistake, Thinking, Years

  "North Korea racist, not communist, says author". Interview with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. February 17, 2010.

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• 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.

  Uri Avnery

  People, Conscious, Importance

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I think that in this globalised world, the local is going to become more and more important - it is a paradox. You see it in Western Europe more and more. Eastern Europe is still coming out of the Soviet uniform cultural era, but this kind of separation and nationalism is very obvious now in Western Europe.

  Robert Dessaix

  Thinking, Europe, Important

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• Turkish football serves the cause of nationalism, but not of the nation.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Football, Causes, Turkish

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars.

  Orhan Pamuk

  War, Earthquakes, Lost

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Humanity may destroy the possibilities for life on earth unless the freedom and power that we have acquired are channeled in new creative directions by a spiritual awareness and moral commitment that transcend nationalism, racism, sexism, religious sectarianism, anthropocentrism, and the dualism between human culture and nature. This is the great issue for the 1990s and the twenty-first century.

  Steven Clark Rockefeller

  Spiritual, Religious, Commitment

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• I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Believe, Victory, Defeat

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Olympics are too powerful. I hate sports - they generate so much nationalism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, economic exploitation, displacement of communities to build worthless bankrupt stadiums.

  Terre Thaemlitz

  Sports, Powerful, Hate

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Bravery, Cowardice, Unworthy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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

  Marianne Moore

  Dissatisfied

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.114, Penguin

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• Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Race, Hatred

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

  Andre Malraux

  Dream, Ideas, Giving

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• Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Civilized, Corporate, Nations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Weaving, Spinning, Regard

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of british rule in India.

  Lala Lajpat Rai

  Inspiring, British Rule In India, Nails

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• The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Spaniards, Seems

  Essays "Of SeemingWise" (1625)

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• Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience.

  Anthony Daniels

  Attachment, Creative, Healthy

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• Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

  Aberjhani

  Patriotic, Justice, Humanity

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