"There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization."
-- Oscar Straus, musician |
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"Patriotism is supporting your country always and your government
when
it deserves it"
- - Mark Twain, author |
"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?"
--Pablo Casals, musician |
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
-- Charles de Gaulle, French leader |
"Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead."
Arundhati Roy, author |
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Nationalism is an infantile disease.
It is the measles of mankind.
-- Albert Einstein, scientist |
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
--Bertrand Russell, philosopher |
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"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."
- - Howard Zinn, author |
"Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for..."
John Lennon, artist |
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“It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.”
-- Arthur C. Clarke, author |
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