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"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."
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"Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call "Nationalist Fundamentalism, which is as dangerous as "Religious Fundamentalism."
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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."
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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?"
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"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."
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"Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill."
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"Canada was built on dead beavers."
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"We know that these clashes with Asia and Jewry are necessary for evolution."
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"However British you may be, I am more British still."
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"I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things."
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"Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people," to the exclusion of other human beings."
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"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."
Reality
"Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest."
Time
"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"
Money
"The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time."
Time
"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust."
Knowledge
"A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants."
Man
"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
Age
"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."
Man
"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it."
Life
"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
Man
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