MARAMI ANG MAY AYAW SA PILIPINAS, PERO WALANG NAGTATANONG KUNG GUSTO SILA NG PILIPINAS

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.

Where there is commerce there is peace.

tetapi berbahagialah orang yang kuat menderita segala kesengsaraan untuk keperluan nusa dan bangsa

But now, where the spirit of the Western nationalism prevails, the whole people is being taught from boyhood to foster hatreds and ambitions by all kinds of means—by the manufacture of half-truths and untruths in...

Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally. Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second—if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity.

A nation’s not a child, for God’s sake. … It’s like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.

Je ne suis pas plus moderne qu’ancien, pas plus Français que Chinois, et l’idée de la patrie c’est-à-dire l’obligation où l’on est de vivre sur un coin de terre marqué en rouge ou en bleu...

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

In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst human vice, collective egotism.

fruited plains,” whatever the hell that means. I mean, America isn’t a place, it’s an ideal. It could happen in the Sahara Desert and still be America. For that matter, I’m the child of immigrants....

It should never be forgotten that, in the struggle between the nations, it is in the interest of each one of them that the other should be weakened by internal struggle. Hence it is always...

Ukiipenda sana nchi yako ni rahisi sana kuichukia serikali yake!

Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself – (belching corruption and farting discontent!)

If you fight for yourself, you have awakened your conscience, but if you fight for people you will awaken a nation.

Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the same. It would be a life without baggage, so one would learn to...

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.

Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you’re still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities...

May problema and bansa, nangangailangan ito ng tulong mo.

Every day we’re told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it’s always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty...

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

I love my country, not my government.

bukankah tidak ada yang lebih suci bagi seorang pemuda daripada membela kepentingan bangsanya?

I do not for a moment suggest that Japan should be unmindful of acquiring modern weapons of self-protection. But this should never be allowed to go beyond her instinct of self-preservation. She must know that...

I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism, like the trade-names for tooth-pastes which are all exactly alike except...

Sebagai regional power dan global player, Indonesia tentu memiliki tanggung jawab yang lebih besar; selain meyakinkan bahwa negara kita semakin aman, maju dan sejahtera, kita juga ingin melihat kawasan dan dunia kita yang semakin baik;...

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers… Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

Metonimijska slika banalnog nacionalizma nije zastava kojom se svesno maše u trenucima raspaljenih strasti; to je zastava koja visi nezapaženo na javnoj zgradi.

The nationalist, however loves his own kind as the extension of his family, realizing that universal values are primitive values or no values at all; that men can be free and content only within their...

He blushed to see other Frenchmen overcome with joy whenever they met a compatriot abroad. The would fall on each other, cluster in a raucous group, and pass whole evenings complaining about the barbarity of...

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

It is you who are old fashioned with your machine-guns and your gas and your talk of country.

We have not noticed how fast the rest has risen. Most of the industrialized world–and a good part of the nonindustrialized world as well–has better cell phone service than the United States. Broadband is faster...

ism” which becomes poisonous quickly as you up the dosage). When you nationalize an industry, you socialize it. When you socialize an industry you nationalize it. Yes, international socialism rejected this formulation. And that’s why...

Saya berpikir, “Kenapa gue bisa optimis? Hmmmm…”Terus terang saya bingung karena pertanyaan itu mengesankan: yang aneh itu saya. Bukan justru mereka yang pesimis terhadap Indonesia.Saya, seperti jadi minoritas. Sebuah anomali.Maka yang keluar dari mulut saya...

I’ve never really understood national pride, or even ethnic pride. It should be more about pride at being a human and living on this planet with fellow humans surely, let’s widen the parameters a bit

The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.

If you are religious, you believe that your religion is the ‘right’ one—and, in many cases, all others will be sent to hell. Similarly, a nationalist believes his or her nation is better or more...

Great nations are built by great people, not just successful people

Rom nii aveau însă nevoie de o istorie eroică, tot așa cum aveau nevoie de origini mărețe, pentru a compensa frustrările prezentului.

The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.

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.

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.

After Napoleon’s 1815 defeat at Waterloo, Europeans had created nation-states in the image and likeness of Napoleon. The new states became the foci of popular affection, even worship. All organized themselves as Napoleon had France,...

Comment l’Histoire pourrait-elle mieux servir la vie qu’en attachant à leur patrie et aux coutumes de leur patrie les races et les peuples moins favorisés, en leur donnant des goûts sédentaires, ce qui les empêche...

I hold life sacred, even more since I’ve tasted freedom,… But I’ve lost my fear of death… But if you join me, I will gladly give my life for you. Because this land and its...

All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself.