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.
Nationalism Quotes
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.
Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defense, when it is waging wars of liberation it is sacred; when those of domination it is accursed.
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
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.
