Nationalism Quotes - Page 16

• Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause more wars and more death and more destruction to the soul and to human life than anything else.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Two, Evil

  Oliver Stone, Charles L. P. Silet (2001). “Oliver Stone: Interviews”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We should not rule out the possibility that Trump's diplomacy could deescalate Middle East strife and international tensions, give the US a lower global profile and enable a more balanced world order to emerge, doing most of its damage here at home, through moves to implement his vision of nativist nationalism.

  Richard A. Falk

  Moving, Home, Order

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• "Make America great again." You know, to a lot of people, well, that's jingoistic. That's nationalism. That's cheap, that's rank, that's not a movement.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, People, Movement

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Trump is much, much worse than people understand. In his ideal world, you would have an alliance between Trump, Putin, Marine Le Pen, maybe a right winger might knock off Merkel in Germany, and you'd have this sort of, essentially, a nationalist populist alliance that can only be made sense of when seen as a right-wing, white nationalism against the world. Because, who do they want to fight? They want to fight Asia and China, they want to fight Latin America and Mexico.

  Van Jones

  Latin, Marine, Fighting

  Source: pen.org

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• Whistleblowing constitutes a nice test case for the evaluation of loyalty. Loyalty also appears at the intersection of many major philosophical debates: general ones such as those between consequentialism and deontology, reason and feeling, virtue and principle, as well as more specific ones such as nationalism and patriotism, morality and obedience, particularism and universalism.

  John Kleinig

  Loyalty, Nice, Philosophical

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• One of the real dangers of loyalty is that it may become associated with certain types of group-think, chauvinism, jingoism, and thus become socially destructive in ways that many other virtues are not likely to be when they are corrupted. Nationalism and patriotism are especially prone to misguided excess.

  John Kleinig

  Loyalty, Real, Virtue

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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

  Irving Babbitt

  Europe, Civilization, Unity

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• So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Inspiring, Law, Long

  Speech delivered to the Bombay Presidency Mahar Conference, www.columbia.edu. May 31, 1936.

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• The Democrats, the longer they talk about identity politics, I got 'em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.

  Stephen K. Bannon

  Crush, Racism, Identity

  Source: origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

  Alfred Adler

  Country, Lying, Patriotic

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• What is the alt-right? It's a dressed-up term for white nationalism. They call themselves white identitarianism. They say that the tribalism that's inherent in the human spirit ought to be also applied to white people.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  People, Spirit, Term

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I notice that Indians love to tweet about each other - will be like, yeah, go India, we're awesome, Indians are awesome, here is another example of an awesome Indian. That's a dangerous false nationalism that I am not interested in. There's a huge amount of diversity within our so-called communities; within the South Asian community, there are people who would never talk to each other.

  Vijay Iyer

  People, Diversity, Community

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The funny thing is, nationalism only could have come about in Europe after the invention of printing. You could have this thing that was a book in a vernacular language, and you could imagine there were other readers of this book who you couldn't see, but they were a theoretical union of readers who all use the same language. That is kind of a prerequisite for a national fantasy. You need that thing, and it's a strange thing.

  Ben Katchor

  Book, Europe, Funny Things

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

  James M. Barrie

  Sight, Scotland, World

  What Every Woman Knows (1918) act 2

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• So the political choice today is much like the 1930s, when the global economy also broke down. The choice is between nationalism and populism on the right, or socialism reviving what used to be left-wing politics.

  Michael Hudson

  Political, Choices, Today

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm an environmentalist, and I don't want you to have a disposable aluminum can. I sure as hell don't want to have a disposable worker and I don't care who you vote for. You've got to have that as a moral position. Otherwise, my concern is, all we are is this petty interest group people who can't say anything back to a petty interest group of white nationalism.

  Van Jones

  White, People, Say Anything

  Source: pen.org

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• I think that the Brexit negotiations have to be a big thing that determines the democratic fight-back and galvanizes democratic Europe again against this rising tide of nationalism.

  Irvine Welsh

  Fighting, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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. I believe there is no way around this: We have to have a solution based on two national states, which will hopefully live and grow together and establish a relationship between them in something like a European Union.

  Uri Avnery

  Believe, Two, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• It's so frightening, the nationalism in the air.

  Arundhati Roy

  Air, Frightening

  Source: progressive.org

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• Americans are an "almost chosen people," which is meant to suggest that there are clear parallels, literal, theological and everything else, between the American story and the Old Testament story of Israel and then the broader story of the Christian church. It's OK to recognize the parallels. It's OK to invoke them. But, you have to keep that "almost" in front of the "chosen." You can't go all the way and say, "America is Israel, America is the Church." That's where I think patriotism shades into, what I call, the heresy of nationalism.

  Ross Douthat

  Christian, Thinking, Israel

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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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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• There's a real connection between the history of print in Europe and nationalism, and how those two things could be formed. I think they may both now be ending, for good and bad, but I think mainly for good. Either globalism was supposed to make people all realize this is one big business going on and we should know what's going on everywhere, or it makes people say, "I don't want to become part of this thing. I want to be incredibly different from you and I want to uphold my local behavior." Dress a certain way.

  Ben Katchor

  Real, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The globalists, the Democrats, the collectivists, hate anybody who's conservative, anybody that believes in the individual. And, the fact is, those people promote individualism, nationalism, and that's why they've got to be eradicated. What a horrible world if the system is successful.

  Alex Jones

  Hate, Believe, Successful

  Source: noworldorder.com

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• The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of prosperous peasants at one throw.

  Norman Davies

  Ukraine, Important, Purpose

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• The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders. When we lay off, more and more Iranians tend to be critical of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The more abusive we are and the more pressure we put on them, the more nationalism fuses with fundamentalism in Iran.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Country, Thinking, Leader

  "Here’s What Zbigniew Brzezinski Thought of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Iranian Nukes". Interview With Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2008.

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