Nationalism Quotes - Page 18

• In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds.

  Tom Metzger

  Fighting, Europe, Wings

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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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• I am particularly interested in the indications that the people seem to understand and approve the necessity of pursuing the course that will prevent a further effort on the part of the German peoples to continue the struggle for world domination, even though they are thoroughly beaten in this war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Struggle, People

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• Decades ago, our ancestors realized that it is not just political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for a warring world. Rather, they determined that it was the fault of human personality - of humankind's inclination towards evil, in whatever form that is. They divided into factions that sought to eradicate those qualities they believed responsible for the world's disarray.

  Veronica Roth

  Religious, Race, Evil

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 1)”, p.29, HarperCollins UK

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• The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Modern, Courses, Humanism

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• There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Mean, Self, Privilege

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• Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Strength, Majesty, Clamor

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• There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Freedom, Wind, World

  1934 Speech, Dec.

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• Dylan Thomas, asked what he thought of Welsh Nationalism, replied in three words, two of which were 'Welsh Nationalism.'

  Avram Davidson

  Two, Three, Dylan

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• How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.

  Laurence Sterne

  Country, War, Air

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• From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Steps, Idealist, Road To Serfdom

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Chapter 4: "The 'Inevitability' of Planning", 1944.

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• Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Nature, Children

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.42, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred? These ways of thinking - cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on - have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power.

  Howard Zinn

  Religious, Thinking, Racism

  Howard Zinn (2013). “A Power Governments Cannot Suppress”, p.143, City Lights Books

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• Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing their Zeal for the Publick, let it not be against those who are perhaps of the same Family, or at least of the same Religion or Nation, but against those who are the open, professed, undoubted Enemies of their Faith, Liberty, and Country.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Women, Shining

  Joseph Addison (1749). “The Spectator”, p.10

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• out of great Russia came three
  dusky syllables workmen took guns and went out to die
  for: Bread, Peace, Land.

  Carl Sandburg

  Gun, Russia, Land

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.

  Gloria Steinem

  Individual Choice, Racism, Choices

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• When I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies were collective, both socialism/communism and nationalism.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Junk, Privacy, Socialism

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself.

  Chandra Shekhar Azad

  Motivational, Inspiring, Fighting

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• 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

  Struggle, Heart, Political

  "Culture conundrum" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2008.

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• We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  Inspiring, Believe, People

  Lal Bahadur Shastri (1965). “Speeches, June 1964-May 1965”

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• Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.

  Vallabhbhai Patel

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Unity

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• We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

  Sarojini Naidu

  Inspiring, Courage, Speech

  Sarojini Naidu, Makarand R. Paranjape (1996). “Sarojini Naidu, selected letters, 1890s to 1940s”

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• In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that redundant and that everyone just wants to be like America.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Thinking, America, Important

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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

  Michael Ignatieff

  Country, Dozen, Britain

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• The economic philosophy of black nationalism only means that our people need to be re-educated into the importance of controlling the economy of the community in which we live, which means that we won't have to constantly be involved in picketing and boycotting other people in other communities in order to get jobs.

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, Philosophy, Mean

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