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...

Our true nationality is mankind.

It is not in our interest, I suppose, to let South Sudan fall under the category of the burdened societies. We must be critical about our own actions if we want to move forward as...

I do not belong to a nation because I speak the same language as they do; I belong to them because I feel the same pain as they did.

In this city, the victors had delusions of grandeur. It was visual. Across the street from the hotel stood City Hall, sporting an oversized Serb flag that hung from the roof to the ground, a...

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.

If it supports the liberation struggle of Black people then it is good. If it is in opposition to the liberation struggle of Black people then it is bad. If it supports the liberation struggle...

I have a feeling that we’ve seen the dismantling of civilisation, brick by brick, and now we’re looking into the void. We thought that we were liberating people from oppressive cultural circumstances, but we were,...

As we drew nearer I saw a cathedral like a crown on the head of a city. In its white walls every window glinted in the sun. Lincoln! Of such places is England made. -“No...

There has never been nationhood without falsehood.

Imagine there’s no countriesIt isn’t hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peaceYou may say that I’m a dreamerBut I’m not the only oneI hope someday...

Culture makes lies plausible through exposure to time. It makes prejudice seem like physics intergenerationally. It is therefore the most dangerous opponent of philosophy, because it feels the most credible to the average person.

The recognition of a distinct ‘national identity’ among members of the Body of Christ can keep before us our ties with Christians who live under different secular governments, with whom we have bonds that transcend...

We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.

I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it’s been a long time since ideology had anything to do with it. Not without cunning, Fat Man and...

All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe and oppose it in India with no feeling of inconsistency. Actions are held...

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

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...