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.

France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound.

The true champions of a nation’s freedom are those who reject the limitations of stereotypes and affirm the rich diversity of human nature to be found.

Mechanized warfare still left room for human qualities to play an important part in the issue. ‘Automatic warfare’ cancels them out, except in a passive form. Archidamus is at last being justified. Courage, skill and...

Saying no to flag worship dethrones the American Jesus and it exposes our cultural Christianity.

Ethnic-based politics is being used to exhort people, to serve own ends – this is anathema to concept of nationalism.

Peace-phobia is the outcome of nationalism and religion; while homophobia is the outcome of traditions and religion.

I am a lawyer, and for me it is very sad to say that there is now law here. There are weapons rather than law. What did Mao say? Power comes out of the barrel...

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 Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.

Show me the heroes that the youth of your country look up to, and I will tell you the future of your country.

Nationality is a good thing to a certain extent, but universality is better. All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal....

Struggle for justice invariably alters the base culture. So did the long Tamil Eelam struggle. Its crystallization was the Vanni society during the last years of LTTE. My four years experience in Vanni also gave...

Statism ends with an eye roll.

I am not posing these questions only to the world at large. I query us who own Christ as our life. Can God be pleased by the vast and increasing inequities among us? Is he...

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all...

In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.

There are moments when masses establish contact with their nation’s spirit. These are the moments of providence. Masses then see their nation in its entire history, and feel its moments of glory, as well as...

What hurt him most of all, made him feel like a sick child aware of terrible wrongness and yet incapable of explaining it to anyone who might help, was that in spite of the evidence...

Mana kapal selam, mana kapal penjelajah kita?

I am a Dalit in Khairlanji. A Pandit in the Kashmir valley. A Sikh in 1984. I am from the North East of India when I am in Munirka. I am a Muslim in Gujarat;...

What constitutes the character of a nation is the character of many individual human beings; every national character is in essence, simply human nature. All the worlds nations, therefore, have a great deal in common...

I do not want that our loyalty as Indians should be in the slightest way affected by any competitive loyalty whether that loyalty arises out of our religion, out of our culture or out of...