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

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"At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers?"

Arundhati Roy, Indian Novelist

Nationalism, Observation, Truth, Wisdom

"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Let my country die for me."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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"What is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry?"

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Nationalism, Love, Hate, Nation, Identity

"Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i."

Jack Schwartz, American Scientist

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"The existence of excessive nationalism is a symptom of a deeper problem in the collective consciousness, which is continually being exploited."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"However British you may be, I am more British still."

Henry James, American Writer

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"We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers."

Sarah Palin, American Politician

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"Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call "Nationalist Fundamentalism, which is as dangerous as "Religious Fundamentalism."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Nationalism, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Today

"I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real."

Peter Singer, Australian Philosopher

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"At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers?"

"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority."

"Let my country die for me."

"What is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry?"

"Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i."

"The existence of excessive nationalism is a symptom of a deeper problem in the collective consciousness, which is continually being exploited."

"However British you may be, I am more British still."

"We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers."

"Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call "Nationalist Fundamentalism, which is as dangerous as "Religious Fundamentalism."

"I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real."

Explore more quotes by Eric Hoffer

"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."

"Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice."

"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."

"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them."

"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."

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