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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor."
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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor."
"The inherent prejudice in unnaturally-produced nationalism causes a form of cultural blindness, which prevents us from seeing the obvious ways we could co-exist in the world as a co-operative human family."
"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."
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
"Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere."
"We know that these clashes with Asia and Jewry are necessary for evolution."
"Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements."
"Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call "Nationalist Fundamentalism, which is as dangerous as "Religious Fundamentalism."
"The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails."
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"Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country."
"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."
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