509 Quotes About Nationalism

Danger of excessive nationalism is nuclear annihilation. Danger of globalism is the eradication of local values and cultures. Greatness can only be realized in the middle path.

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.

The shape of democracy is defined by our sense of unity, not by our ideological loyalty, not by our nationalist stubbornness, not by our religious rigidity.

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.

Without a country, you are the basket of humanity.

Wild animals look good in the jungle, not in the Oval Office.

Sonnet of ProgressWhere the nation ends,There the world begins.Where the self fades,There community begins.Where luxury withers,There equality begins.Where biases shrink,There truth begins.Where pride dies,There growth begins.Where rigidity ends,There life begins.Such true life is forever revered.Prejudice conquered is world conquered.

We have arrived at a point of time in history, where there is no place for exclusive national or cultural identity upon the fabric of society. With one hand foster your cultural identity, with another assimilate others - this is the golden principle of progress, both national and global.

Remembering the martyrs and honoring the armed forces on veterans day may make you feel proud, but sustaining a tradition that conditions you to celebrate the loss of life in the name of patriotism is not something to take pride in - if anything this celebration is a brutal reminder of tribalism - of our shortfalls - of our inability to assimilate - of our failure in becoming truly civilized. Therefore, the need of the hour is, we work so that we no longer need a veterans day.