In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.

Eugene V. Debs

Tags: deception nationalism patriotism religion tyranny oppression exploitation totalitarianism authoritarianism fundamentalism



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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

Theodore Roosevelt

Tags: politics morals nationalism patriotism environment values conservation



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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Albert Camus

Tags: justice nationalism patriotism



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No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

Walter Kaufmann

Tags: nationalism nietzsche nazism



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Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

Helen Caldicott

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Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the city because they know the city; but it will always be an exceptional sort of citizen who has or claims the right to rule over ten cities, and these remote and altogether alien cities…To make all politics cosmopolitan is to create an aristocracy of globe-trotters. If your political outlook really takes in the Cannibal Islands, you depend of necessity upon a superior and picked minority of the people who have been to the Cannibal Islands; or rather of the still smaller and more select minority who have come back.

G.K. Chesterton

Tags: politics nationalism internationalism local-government one-world-government



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As we drew nearer I saw a cathedral like a crown on the head of a city. In its white walls every window glinted in the sun. Lincoln! Of such places is England made. -"No Moon Tonight

Don Charlwood

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I have often noticed that nationalism is at its strongest at the periphery. Hitler was Austrian, Bonaparte Corsican. In postwar Greece and Turkey the two most prominent ultra-right nationalists had both been born in Cyprus. The most extreme Irish Republicans are in Belfast and Derry (and Boston and New York). Sun Yat Sen, father of Chinese nationalism, was from Hong Kong. The Serbian extremists Milošević and Karadžić were from Montenegro and their most incendiary Croat counterparts in the Ustashe tended to hail from the frontier lands of Western Herzegovina.

Christopher Hitchens

Tags: nationalism hitler napoleon karadzic milosevic sun-yat-sen



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