Nationalism Quotes - Page 12

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

  Sukarno

  Flower, Garden, Justice

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• But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to life. Van Gogh, Beethoven, Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Pink Floyd (the early Piper at the Gates of Dawn line up), scientific breakthroughs, spiritual revolution, utopian visions, zany nationalism that kills millions- wait, that’s the bad kind. Tim Dorsey (Hurricane Punch)

  Tim Dorsey

  Spiritual, Waiting, Vision

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• The Britons are quite separated from all the world.

  Virgil

  World, Britons

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• The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Essence, Democracy, Interest

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.24, Rajpal & Sons

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• The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

  Robert Walpole

  Spring, Mushrooms, Ideas

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• We must formulate, with both imagination and restraint, a new approach to the Middle East - not pressing our case so hard that the Arabs feel their neutrality and nationalism are threatened ... while at the same time trying to hasten the inevitable Arab acceptance of the permanence of Israel ... We must ... seek a permanent settlement among Arabs and Israelis based not on an armed truce but on mutual self-interest.

  John F. Kennedy

  Acceptance, Self, Israel

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• 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, League, Enlightenment

  Christopher Dawson (2010). “The Crisis of Western Education (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.94, CUA Press

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• Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace.

  Bertrand Russell

  Running, Long, World

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• Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Hair, Giving, House

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• I believe that if we could see the chapters that are missing from the book [The Autobiography of Malcolm X], we would gain an understanding as to why perhaps - perhaps - the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the New York Police Department and others in law enforcement greatly feared what Malcolm X was about, because he was trying to build a broad - an unprecedented black coalition across the lines of black nationalism and integration. And in way, it presages 30 years ahead of time, the Million Man March.

  Manning Marable

  New York, Book, Believe

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• [Alex] Haley's objective was quite different. Haley was a republican. He was an integrationist. He was very opposed to black nationalism.

  Manning Marable

  Black, Different, Alex

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• This European and really pro-Russian nationalism is seeping into America. It's very disturbing.

  Glenn Beck

  America, Disturbing

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

  William Gibson

  Ideas, People, Traditional

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• Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Patriotic, Fighting

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• I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Patriotism, Patriotism And Nationalism

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• [T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is] to refine and enlarge the public views by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations.

  James Madison

  Country, Sacrifice, Small Numbers

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• We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Patriotism, Literature, Behavior

  "Romulus the Great" by Friedrich Durrenmatt, act I, 1956.

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• 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

  Real, Believe, Attachment

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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• Arab nationalism, which tended to be until relatively recent somewhat secular in motivation, has now become increasingly religious and fundamentalist. And that makes it more pervasive, more difficult to deal with.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Religious, Motivation, Difficult

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Pashtun nationalism is reasserting itself. Its political history spans several hundred years. The Pashtuns are angry at the Americans because, one, they're still being bombed, and two, they perceive that the Americans are backing the Tajik faction, which controls the army and security forces in Kabul.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Army, Years, Two

  Source: progressive.org

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• Pat Buchanan has emerged as the prophet and forerunner of a real economic nationalism on the right, and Donald Trump is now its tribune. This is not movement ideology which is all about limited government, the power of free markets and also internationally - globalism.

  Sam Tanenhaus

  Real, Government, Movement

  Source: www.npr.org

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• No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Loyalty, Simple, Self Respect

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• 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

  Blood, Ideas, Forever

  "Nonproliferation Norms". Book by Maria Rost Rublee, 2009.

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• I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

  George Galloway

  Men, Patriotism, Drs

  "Thom Hartmann: IV with British MP George Galloway". Interview with Thom Hartmann, www.scoop.co.nz. May 30, 2005.

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• When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed to bring black people together and elevate black people, join that church. Join that church. If you see where the NAACP is preaching and practicing that which is designed to make black nationalism materialize, join the NAACP. Join any kind of organization, civic, religious, fraternal, political, or otherwise that's based on lifting the black man up and making him master of his own community.

  Malcolm X

  Religious, Philosophy, Past

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

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