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All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents. — Philip Kerr

If one harbors anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true, are inadmissable. — George Orwell

If the future remains uncertain, we know the past history of nationalism. And that should be sufficient to encourage a habit of watchful suspicion. — Michael Billig

You can call anyone you want a traitor as long as you're the one holding the pen. — Nihad Sirees

That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ... — Elizabeth Gaskell

He found Washington at once august and disgusting. — John Taliaferro

But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions. — Simone De Beauvoir

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. — Richard Aldington

Nationalism: the curious notion that barbarism becomes a virtue when it reaches tribal proportions. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism. — Michael Ignatieff

The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene. — Brother Andrew

Nationalism is as thin as a thread, perhaps that's why many feel it must be anxiously guarded — Hisham Matar

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?' — Margaret Atwood

The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal. — Arthur Miller

Our love for our country is worth nothing if it deprives us of our sense of humanity, if it destroys positive consensus. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

C" is for colonies
Rightly we boast
that of all the great nations
Great Britain has most! — Mrs. Ernest Ames

Our side has agents. Their side has spies. — Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

Don't you ever just think of yourself as American? — Sabrina Vourvoulias

We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands. — Bryant McGill

My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human. — Santosh Kalwar

The more extreme conservatives will embrace religion and nationalism to a higher degree. — Tyler Cowen

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language. — Hilaire Belloc

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others. — Noam Chomsky

There has never been nationhood without falsehood. — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins. — Gideon Haigh

True heroes don't fall. They only encounter temporary setbacks as they forge ahead towards progress. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

When you want a nation, that's called nationalism ... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation. — Malcolm X

Nationalism is like class. You have to have it in order to be rid of it. — Terry Eagleton

Nationalism is the measels of mankind. — Albert Einstein

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

A land is precious, but ours is to be revered. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

These negroes aren't asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation. — Malcolm X

It is good for everyone to know how to forget. — Ernest Renan

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool. — Arthur Keith

The revolution in global communications thus forces all nations to reconsider traditional ways of thinking about national sovereignty. — George Shultz

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God. — Billy Collins

My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual. — Mahatma Gandhi

We have a secret weapon ... it is called Nationalism — Ho Chi Minh

Every society produces its own cultural conceits, a set of lies and delusions about itself that thrive in the face of all contrary evidence. — Jack Weatherford

Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression. — Albert Einstein

Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism. — Said Musa

All nationalism or racialism is evil, and Jewish nationalism is no exception. — Karl Popper

After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world. — Stephen Kinzer

We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism. — Mahatma Gandhi

I do not belong to a nation because I speak the same language as they do; I belong to them because I feel the same pain as they did. — M.F. Moonzajer

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness. — Raisa Gorbacheva

There's a difference between a Nazi and a German. — Samuel Fuller

The fueling of anti-Turkish sentiment in Europe is resulting in an anti-European, indiscriminate nationalism in Turkey. — Orhan Pamuk

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more. — Malcolm X

Time alone can nourish or erode our emotions. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union — Francois Mitterrand

Nationalism: the love of tribal fictions inspired by the hatred of social realities. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism
the idolatry of the 20th century. — Cornel West

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. — Henri Frederic Amiel

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism. — Rabih Alameddine

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems. — Reinhold Niebuhr

There is a grand union beyond nationalism which serves all people, and which is rooted in what is real, versus what has been created or produced. — Bryant McGill

The greatest sacrifice a man can make is the image of his soul. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. — Stuart Chase

Individual effort is good but collective effort is better. We need a NETWORK of nation builders — Fela Durotoye

The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid. — C.V. Wedgwood

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. — Charles De Gaulle

Nationalism leads to all sorts of nasty things (even Nazi things) like fascism and war. — Christina Engela

Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive. — Mahatma Gandhi

Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. — Eric Hobsbawm

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar — Marshall McLuhan

France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound. — Victor Hugo

If Nepal is to become a new Nepal, she must first become free from ethnic segregation. — Santosh Kalwar

All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism. — Geoff Mulgan

Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life. — Mahatma Gandhi

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation. — Ronald Reagan

Nationalism is just racism with a flag. — Peter Joseph

It is necessary to distinguish the nationalism of the oppressing nations from the nationalism of the oppressed — Isaac Deutscher

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism. — David Bailey

In the name of nationalism creating a hatredism isn't fairism — Santosh Avvannavar

The conviction that, in Christ, God has reconciled all humanity and all creation leaves no room for nationalism. — C. Christopher Smith

Nationalism ... is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you. — Daniel Fried

Nationalism cannot flower if it does not grow in the garden of internationalism. — Sukarno

It is only on the basis of undiluted Nationalism and of perfect justice and impartiality that the Indian Army of Liberation can be built up. — Subhas Chandra Bose

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language. — Karl Kraus

Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it. — Jacob M. Appel

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep. — Stefan Molyneux

Nationalism is cured by traveling. — Shakira

It's only important to differentiate between patriotism and nationalism. I speak of enlightened patriotism. — Charlotte Knobloch

The culmination of every supreme nationalism is a consummate universalism. — Nicos Hadjicostis

The existence of excessive nationalism is a symptom of a deeper problem in the collective consciousness, which is continually being exploited. — Bryant McGill

Ethnic-based politics is being used to exhort people, to serve own ends - this is anathema to concept of nationalism. — Imran Khan

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive — Stefan Molyneux

Nationalism is the sworn enemy of civilization, whether past, present or future, its malodorous presence thwarting the development of intelligence, — Stefan Zweig

Nationalism is pimped-out bigotry, designed to provoke a Stockholm Syndrome in the livestock. — Stefan Molyneux

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

Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism. — Michael Eric Dyson

If he is weak enough to grow smaller to fit himself to his covering, then it becomes a process of gradual suicide by shrinkage of the soul. — Rabindranath Tagore

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

Great nations are built by great people, not just successful people — Fela Durotoye

I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism. — Orhan Pamuk

Take a stand that reflects the widest horizons of your soul if you don't want to be a slave to external powers. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being. — Mahatma Gandhi