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Nationalism
Patriotism is the last resort of scoundrels.
Samuel Johnson
...a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands.
Howard Zinn on nationalism
Asked whether he wants to apologize for the suffering he caused, he looks genuinely confused, has the interpreter repeat the question, and answers 'No'...'I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.'
Journalist Nate Thayer interviewing a dying Pol Pot, I997
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James A. Baldwin
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Bertrand Russell
Medan vi stirrar oss blinda på gaphalsar som Haider, Ian eller Bert är det EUs stillsamma byråkrater som i gott samarbete med medlemsländernas samvetsgranna polismyndigheter lägger en stark grund för en ny, mystifierande folkgemenskap.
Sven-Eric Liedman
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
Nationalism är en barnssjukdom. Den är mänsklighetens mässling.
Albert Einstein
Patriotism är övertygelsen att ens fosterland är överlägset alla andra därför att man själv är född där.
George Bernard Shaw
Why do they play national anthems? Why do we have to beat the Russians? Why do the East Germans want to beat the West Germans? Why can't everyone wear the same colors but wear numbers to tell them apart? What happened to the Olympic ideal of man against man?
John Carlos
In proportion as the antagonism between the classes vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.
Karl Marx och Friedrich Engels
De som inte tror på Förenta staternas ideologi skall inte tillåtas stanna i Förenta staterna.
Tom Clark, amerikansk justitieminister, 1948
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