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Nationalism Quotes

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Our true nationality is mankind.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. "Patriotism" is its cult.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and a common fear of its neighbors.
 share this Nationalism saying   W. R. Inge

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.
 share this Nationalism saying   Oscar S. Strauss

Nationalism ... is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.
 share this Nationalism saying   Dan Fried

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Blind patriotism has been kept intact by rewriting history to provide people with moral consolation and a psychological basis for denial.
 share this Nationalism saying   William H. Boyer

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.

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
 share this Nationalism saying   R. Aldington

Altogether national hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.




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