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• There's no real nationalism in this county. If you're poor in America, that's a criminal offense. You're not only a criminal for being poor, but you're also stupid and deficient. We don't have this national feeling of fraternity. We live in an individualist state where everyone hates everyone else, except your immediate family. We live in a mafia state.

  Ian Svenonius

  Real, Stupid, Hate

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Freedom, Philosophy, War

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• Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never. Let us love our country, but pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora and fauna and human life that it supports - one planet indivisible, with clean air,... soil and water; with liberty, justice and peace for all.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Love, Life, Country

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• Nationalism is the measels of mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Mankind

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• Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Country, Peace

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.68, Open Road Media

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• Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

  Ron Paul

  Loyalty, Running, Real

  Farewell Address to the U.S. Congress, delivered 14 November 2012

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• There is Ontario patriotism, Quebec patriotism, or Western patriotism; each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others, but there is no Canadian patriotism, and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism.

  Henri Bourassa

  Ontario, May, Quebec

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• Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Causes, Kind

  Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.47, South End Press

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• During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

  Howard Thurman

  Peace, War, Hatred

  Howard Thurman (2012). “Jesus and the Disinherited”, p.74, Beacon Press

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• It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Patriotic, Men

  "The Exploration of Space". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1951.

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• All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Narcissism, Kind, Understood

  "Because you're worth it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2006.

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• When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

  Frank Borman

  Peace, Moon, Ubuntu

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• Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

  Arthur Keith

  Opposites, Christianity, Cases

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.

  Ross Douthat

  Healthy, Shade, Dangerous

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Hands, Voice

  Journal, 10 Dec. 1824

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• In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.

  C.J. Sansom

  Men, Healthy, Worship

  C. J. Sansom (2004). “Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery”, p.194, Penguin

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• Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

  Eric Hoffer

  Respect, Humility, Pride

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Courage, Integrity, Beast

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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• To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

  George Santayana

  Patriotic, Soul, Patriotism

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2002). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.192, MIT Press

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• Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.423, Princeton University Press

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• Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

  Guy de Maupassant

  War, Patriotic, Eggs

  Guy de Maupassant (1926*). “The Novels and Tales of Guy de Maupassant”

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• I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, Affection, Understood

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1981). “A life in our times: memoirs”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The real choice we have to make is between peace and nationalism.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Real, Choices

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Other Colours”, p.349, Faber & Faber

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• By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions and tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled 'good' or 'bad'...By 'patriotism' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power.

  George Orwell

  Block, Believe, Mean

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• Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Patriotic, Men, Thinking

  "The Problem of Dissent". "Saturday Review" Magazine, Volume 48, December 1965.

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