Nationalism Quotes - Page 7

• I don't even know what street Canada is on.

  Al Capone

  Humorous, Canada, Streets

  "Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada". Book by Stephen Schneider, chapter Five, p. 206, 2009.

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• Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

  James Bryce

  Country, Peace, War

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• It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Country, Kindness, Patriotic

  "Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited and translated by Shoghi Effendi, 1935.

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• The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Country, Peace, Kindness

  "Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited and translated by Shoghi Effendi, 1935.

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• Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

  Helen Caldicott

  War

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• I am against nationalism, and I am against patriotism. They are both the dark side. It is time not simply to redefine a kinder-and-gentler patriotism, but to sweep away the notion and acknowledge it as morally, politically, and intellectually bankrupt. It is time to scrap patriotism.

  Robert Jensen

  Dark, Nihilism, Sides

  Robert Jensen (2004). “Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity”, p.39, City Lights Books

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• Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Imperialism, Violent, Curse

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• I am a Yugoslav nationalist, aiming for the unification of all Yugoslavs, and I do not care what form of state, but it must be free from Austria.

  Gavrilo Princip

  I Dont Care, Yugoslavia, Political

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• The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, People, Ireland And The Irish

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.290

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• Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Religious, Common, Language

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• Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.

  Billy Collins

  Land, Insanity, Boundaries

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• The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.

  William Faulkner

  People, Clean, Swiss

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• Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.

  Alija Izetbegovic

  Country, Strong, Two

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• The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.

  Andrew van der Bijl

  Political, Church, Scene

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• To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Marriage, Buddhist

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• Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons are no longer subjects of calculation. A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom, or conquest, can easily confound the arithmetic of statists, and achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as, the Greeks, the Saracens, the Swiss, the Americans, and the French have done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Mean, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.253, Harvard University Press

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• We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

  Golda Meir

  Struggle, Secret, Weapons

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• They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

  Edmund Burke

  Failure, Errors, Political

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.178

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• If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

  James Joyce

  Politics, Language, Exile

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• Part of the coalition is intellectuals who have an idea of racial nationalism, which is very popular in right-wing populist movements in Europe. The alt-right believes in racially separate nation-states.

  Chip Berlet

  Believe, Very Popular, Populist

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep,
  Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow,
  And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness.

  Edwin Muir

  Lying, Thinking, Sorrow

  Edwin Muir, “The Horses”

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• We've seen in Europe after the recent terrorist attacks a certain retrogression in human rights. It depends on how threatened the Turks feel. For example, Turkey became much more tolerant towards Kurdish nationalists when the killing of Turkish soldiers stopped in southeastern Turkey and body bags stopped arriving. Now, since June there's been a revival of Kurdish attacks on Turkish troops - something like 150 people have been killed by terrorists supplied from and operating out of bases in northern Iraq. So Turks are feeling much less tolerant of Kurdish nationalism.

  Andrew Mango

  People, Feelings, Soldier

  "The Turks Today". Interview With Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. October 26, 2005.

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• No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Critics, Extremes, Has Beens

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• There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.

  Gertrude Stein

  Country, Passion, Important

  Gertrude Stein, Brenda Wineapple (2002). “Three Lives”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Able, Structure, Nations

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.134, Hackett Publishing

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