Nationalism Quotes
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This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of pride, hatred, and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; and men do reverence before false gods of nationalism and materialism. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.
Storm Jameson
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We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
William Golding
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Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.
Ernest Gellner
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Nationalism is the measels of mankind.
Albert Einstein
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Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
Stuart Chase
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No more arresting emblems of the modern culture of nationalism exist than cenotaphs and tombs of Unknown Soldiers.
Benedict Anderson
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Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.
George Bernard Shaw
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Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies' - 'one against all' - and that a fundamental difference exists between this people and all others. It claims its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man.
Hannah Arendt
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Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.
Mahatma Gandhi
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What I am proposing is that Nationalism has to be understood, by aligning it not with self-consciously held political ideologies, but with large cultural systems that preceded it, out of which — as well as against which — it came into being.
Benedict Anderson
