nationalism

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

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 you'll join usAnd the world will be as one

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.

Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat clean quite solvent business.

The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.

Patriotism is not short frenzied outbursts of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedicaton of a lifetime.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able vicariously to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat what's more with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future.

God made the ocean but the Dutch made Holland.

There is Ontario patriotism Quebec patriotism or Western patriotism each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others but there is no Canadian patriotism and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism.

The mind supplies the idea of a nation but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined as once with women to a single country.