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Nationalism Quotes
"France cannot be France without greatness."
99
"Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin."
79
"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."
73
"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."
61
"Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism."
58
"The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever."
48
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
41
"Let my country die for me."
37
"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."
32
"Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere."
31
"I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things."
29
"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."
28
"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."
25
"Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill."
25
"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."
25
"We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers."
25
"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."
24
"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor."
22
"I would like to give it a name: it is the great fortress of Europe."
22
"Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect."
21
"What is good for Germany is right, and everything that harms Germany is wrong."
20
"We know that these clashes with Asia and Jewry are necessary for evolution."
18
"The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary."
17
"Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos."
15
"Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call "Nationalist Fundamentalism, which is as dangerous as "Religious Fundamentalism."
14
"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."
14
"The existence of excessive nationalism is a symptom of a deeper problem in the collective consciousness, which is continually being exploited."
13
"However British you may be, I am more British still."
13
"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?"
12
"Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries."
10
"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."
10
"In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it."
9
"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."
8
"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?"
4
"The superman exists and he's American."
3
"The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to it animosity or two its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and it's interest."
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