509 Quotes About Nationalism

... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion ... that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them.

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.

The four greatest threats to humanity are fundamentalism, nationalism, transhumanism and democracy.

It takes very little to be proud, but huge effort to be ashamed

— А я ось, знаєте, — каже Зінуля, — буває, прокинуся вранці і думаю, чому тобі, Зінка, так пощастило, що ти народилась не де-небудь, а в Росії, найкращій країні. Ви згодні зі мною?[...]— Я-то згоден, — сказав я. Але був один чоловік, який вважав інакше. Він сказав: "Здогадав мене чорт з моїм розумом і талантом народитися в Росії".— І хто був цей дурень?— Пушкін [93].

Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call “Nationalist Fundamentalism”, which is as dangerous as “Religious Fundamentalism”.

The Communist Thoughts’ propounded & practiced in ‘Democratic Countries’ is actually invalid in Communist Countries.

The French Revolution sought to replace one religion with another: hence its fanaticism and exterminatory zeal. But the new religion of the nation was demonic, fraught with contradiction and self-hatred, with no power to survive. It quickly gave way to the Napoleonic project of empire, through which violence was externalized and a rule of law re-established at home

5 mins after your birth, they decide your name, nationality, religion & sect & you spend rest of your life defending something you didn't choose.