on nationalism
and patiotism

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

"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?"
--Pablo Casals, musician
 

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


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

"Patriotism is loving your country always and your government when it deserves it"
-Mark Twain, author

"Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for..."
John Lennon, artist
“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
  Ron Cobb, 1968  

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