The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.
Christopher Dawson
ControlStrongEnoughNationalism
Inequality, climate change, and conflict are evicting millions from their homes. But these perils are being met with 'anti-answers' such as nationalism, closed borders, lies, and hatred.
Winnie Byanyima
ChangeConflictNationalismHatred
Vietnam should have taught us that nationalism, with its engines of independence and self-determination, is a more powerful force by far than Marxism and must be understood and respected.
Pete Hamill
IndependenceNationalismPowerfulUs
The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism - mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but they couldn't deal with half a million people demonstrating in the streets.
Noam Chomsky
PeopleNationalismSeriouslyDefeated
I don't criticise anybody, but I just don't understand religion. Like I don't understand nationalism. These are the two things that cause wars. I don't understand why they are supposed to be good things.
Hugh Masekela
GoodReligionGood ThingsNationalism
I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets people anywhere except near a pile of dead bodies. I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.
Dylan Moran
PeopleThinkNationalismYouNeed
Let's be cautious about narrow nationalism.
James A. Forbes
NationalismCautiousNarrowAbout
The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
Tariq Ali
IdentityIndependenceNationalismOwn
Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
Lance Henriksen
MeNationalismScaryLittleStuff
In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
VisionWorldNationalismPlace
Scottish nationalism has grown since we entered the European Union.
Michael Gove
NationalismUnionScottishEuropean
I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of nationalism I despise as destructive and infantile is really just tribalism writ large.
Steven Heighton
NationalismCountryCanadaKindNeed
I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I never felt them. I liked how open in most ways Catalan nationalism was, compared to Irish nationalism. I disliked the violence and cruelty in Ireland.
Colm Toibin
BookNationalismViolenceNeverOpen
I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.
William Gibson
PeopleIdeasNationalismHappiest
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.
Todd Gitlin
LifePatriotismBelieveNationalism
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington
PatriotismNationalismSillyOwnHis
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
Hilaire Belloc
LifeHistoryLanguageNationalism
When societies go backwards and slide into authoritarianism, nationalism, and tribalism, machismo and sexism are also emboldened.
Elif Safak
NationalismGoBackwardsSexismAlso
All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.
Geoff Mulgan
NationalismKindNarcissism
In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
Tariq Ramadan
SoulLosingNationalismSecurity
Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.
Jack Schwartz
NationalismNewJewishOutEmpires
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