Nationalism Quotes

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.

(Nationalism is) a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands.

When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter and occupy, and he clears away many nations before you – the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations mightier and more numerous than you – and when the Lord […]

But as for the towns of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not let anything that breathes remain alive. You shall annihilate them – the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites – just as the LORD your God […]

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.

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.