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Nationalism Quotes
"Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin."
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"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."
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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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"France cannot be France without greatness."
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"Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism."
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"The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever."
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"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
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"Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere."
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"I believe it went like this-and stop me if I'm wrong, Mousey: 'Listen, we may not be our own continent and everything, but we have a big country over in America too."
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"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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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor."
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"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."
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"Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect."
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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."
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"Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill."
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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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"What is good for Germany is right, and everything that harms Germany is wrong."
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"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."
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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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"I would like to give it a name: it is the great fortress of Europe."
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"Let my country die for me."
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"We know that these clashes with Asia and Jewry are necessary for evolution."
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"The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary."
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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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"Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call "Nationalist Fundamentalism, which is as dangerous as "Religious Fundamentalism."
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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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"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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"However British you may be, I am more British still."
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"Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos."
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"Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and narcissistic individuals."
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"Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries."
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"In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it."
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"Abroad? Oh no. I went to England in '91, and you stood in the garden at Fontenay and berated me. He shook his head. "This is my nation. Here I stay. A man can't carry his country on the soles of his shoes."
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