Nationalism Quotes
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Nationalism can only ever be a crucial political agenda against oppression. All longing to the contrary, it cannot provide the absolute guarantee of identity.
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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.
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It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.
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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.
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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.
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No more arresting emblems of the modern culture of nationalism exist than cenotaphs and tombs of Unknown Soldiers.
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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.
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Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
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Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.
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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.
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Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.
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Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.
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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.
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Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.
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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
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Nationalism is the measels of mankind.
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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.
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Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.
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My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.
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I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that we have. The rise of nationalism under the guise of patriotism is so effed up, and underneath this banner of patriotism is the worst of nationalist rhetoric: racism, xenophobia, sexism, pitting communities against each other, implicitly inciting race wars and stuff like that. So that's the angry part of it, but I'm incredibly optimistic about the potential to redefine what it means to be a patriotic American .
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I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.
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You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor; each year it gets more difficult to carry the burden the aliens have placed upon you; each year the cheap labor of aliens makes your future less secure; each year you retreat a few steps more into the world of slavery.
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The ideological conflict of the New Cold War is between lawless Russian nationalism and law-governed Western multilateralism.
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We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.
