Nationalism, of course, is intrinsically absurd. Why should the accident – fortune or misfortune – of birth as an American, Albanian, Scot or Fiji Islander impose loyalties that dominate an individual life and structure a society so as to place it in formal conflict with others? In the past there were local loyalties to place […]
Nationalism Quotes
These two (nationalism and Christianity), when taken seriously, are incompatible… For my part I hold that, where they differ, Christianity is preferable, but where they agree, both are mistaken.
Breathes there a man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d As home his footsteps he hath turn’d From wandering on a foreign strand!
No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified in the name of patriotism.
The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the states of the civilized world were organized in some sort of federalism, as the states of the American Union, for instance, are organized, there would be no international war as we know it… The main obstacle is […]
I love my country too much to be a nationalist.
Altogether national hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one… The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is a new form of slavery. (Karol Wojtyla)
We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership.
