I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers. -Juan Crisostomo Ibarra

The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude...

Communication between people of different nationalities enriches human society and makes it more colourful.. Imagine our Russian intellectuals, the kind, merry, perceptive old women in our villages, our elderly workers, our young lads, our little...

Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and narcissistic individuals.

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it….

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

It wasn’t like the World Trade Center, something vile and astonishing within our own borders, happening to people who’d saved coins of the same currency in their piggybanks when they were children. I knew intellectually...

There is abundant scholarship which establishes that the delegitimation of homosexual desire and the production of the naturally heterosexual, properly bi-gendered (unambiguously male or female) population of citizens, with the women respectably desexualized, is a...

The West in the voice of her thundering cannon had said at the door of Japan, Let there be a nation—and there was a Nation. And now that it has come into existence, why do...

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

Demi kezaliman yang terjadi di Palestina, di Kashmir, di Afganistan, di Irak atau di manapun juga … kenapa mereka rela menyengsarakan saudara-saudaranya yang sebangsa dan setanahair?Berarti ada yang salah dengan rasa kebangsaan mereka. Mereka merasa...

In modern times, nationalism is the most copious and durable source of mass enthusiasm, and that nationalist fervor must be tapped if the drastic changes projected and initiated by revolutionary enthusiasm are to be consummated.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Nationalism is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

Don’t you ever just think of yourself as American?

On peut enivrer les Allemands de l’ivresse d’être Allemands et compatriotes de Beethoven. On peut en saouler jusqu’au soutier. C’est, certes, plus facile que de tirer du soutier un Beethoven.

Arab nationalism in its traditional form was the way in which secular Arab Christians like Edward had found and kept a place for themselves, while simultaneously avoiding the charge of being too ‘Western.’ It was...

I offer you struggle, danger and death,” and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet

You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the feeling you expected to have and did not have when you made your first communion. It was a...

How long have you been away from the country?” Laruja asked Ibarra.”Almost seven years.””Then you have probably forgotten all about it.””Quite the contrary. Even if my country does seem to have forgotten me, I have...

I thought I was getting away from politics for a while. But I now realise that the vuvuzela is to these World Cup blogs what Julius Malema is to my politics columns: a noisy, but...

What matters is the need to move from the rigidity of national stereotypes towards something more truly human; what matters is to discover the riches of human hearts and souls; what matters is the human...

Nationalism as we know it, is the result of a form of state-sponsored branding.

As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who...

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals

(on his thought on excessive nationalism) …the country was no doubt very important, but that there was no need at all to act the clown by talking about it all the time, as if one...

L’histoire est le produit le plus dangereux que la chimie de l’intellect ait élaboré. Ses propriétés sont bien connues. Il fait rêver, il enivre les peuples, leur engendre de faux souvenirs, exagère leurs réflexes, entretient...

I am just coming from my visit to Japan, where I exhorted this young nation to take its stand upon the higher ideals of humanity and never to follow the West in its acceptance of...

A true patriot never abandons his country at the hour of need.

minoritas”. Mayoritas tidak perlu arogan. Minoritas tidak perlu minder. Kita semua sama.

There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation.

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

Few indeed are those who get a choice. We do as we are told. We stand or fall beside those who were born near to us, who look as we do, who speak the same...

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.

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.

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....

Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. Both words are normally used in so vague a way that any definition is liable to be challenged, but one must draw a distinction between them, since...

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people…

Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.

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

The nationalism of a small nation can, with treacherous ease, become detached from its roots in what is noble and human. It then become pitiful, making the nation appear smaller rather than greater. It is...

I propose the following definition of the nation: it is an imagined political community-and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know...

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

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...

C” is for colonies Rightly we boastthat of all the great nationsGreat Britain has most!

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious

Because each nation has its own history of thieving and lies and broken faith, therefore there can only flourish international suspicion and jealousy, and international moral shame becomes anæmic to a degree of ludicrousness. The...

The most visible and often tragic sacrifice of proletarian socialism – not to mention internationalism – on the altar of nationalism, of course, has been by the states that proclaim themselves to be, or to...