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~ Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. ~  ~ Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. ~ ~ Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. "Patriotism" is its cult. ~ ~ Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. ~ ~ There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization. ~ ~ We Americans have so much potential. We just need to cultivate an environment that allows us to let go of our Cro-Magnon nationalism and start living like citizens of earth. ~ ~ Canadian nationalism is a subtle, easily misunderstood but powerful reality, expressed in a way that is not to state directed - something like a beer commercial or the death of a significant Canadian figure. ~ ~ Nationalism ... is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you. ~ ~ Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ~ ~ Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation. ~ ~ Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism ~ ~ Canadian nationalism was systematically encouraged and exploited by American capital. Canada moved from colony to nation to colony. ~ |
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