Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old nationalism quotes, nationalism sayings, and nationalism proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.Bryant McGill
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It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.Bahá'u'lláh
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.Oscar Wilde
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A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.Andrew O'Hagan
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Nationalism and anti-nationalism is a matter of perception. You cannot mandate who is a nationalist and what is not.Kapil Sibal
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.Bertrand Russell
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Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.Richard Aldington
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A nation that doesn't honor its past, has no future.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.Ernest Gellner
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.Guy De Maupassant
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Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.George Will
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Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.Albert Einstein
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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.Mark Twain
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A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.Ronald Reagan
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All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.Geoff Mulgan
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Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.James Bryce
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Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism.George Orwell
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.Clarence Darrow
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Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. Patriotism is its cult.Erich Fromm
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Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.Muammar al-Gaddafi
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.William Ralph Inge
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It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.Arthur C. Clarke
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Nationalism, and its chum, patriotism, encourage unedifying hyperbole.Douglas Eaglesham Dunn
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Our true nationality is mankind.H.G. Wells
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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.Charles De Gaulle
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.George Orwell
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.Noam Chomsky
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National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.Umberto Eco
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Nationalism remains, after two centuries, the most vital political emotion in the world - far more vital than social ideologies such as communism or fascism or even democracy.Arthur Meier Schlesinger
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Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.Arundhati Roy