Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Nationalism

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 only a new form of slavery.
Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) Polish Catholic Religious Leader

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
John Foster Dulles (1888–1959) American Republican Public Official, Lawyer

I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn’t want all the pills I’ve recommended, that’s up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.
Javier Perez de Cuellar (1920–2020) Peruvian & United Nations Diplomat

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought—by force of circumstances, not argument—to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Journalist, Author

Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable.
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German Philosopher, Economist

The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right—you know when?. When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
Dag Hammarskjold (1905–61) Swedish Statesman, UN Diplomat

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
Oliver Goldsmith (1730–74) Irish Novelist, Playwright, Poet

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) British Historian

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick (1928–99) American Film Director, Writer, Film Producer, Photographer

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
Eric Hoffer (1902–83) American Philosopher, Author

Bulls get rich, bears get rich, but pigs get slaughtered An Irishman is never at his best except when fighting.
Irish Proverb

It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–81) Russian Novelist, Essayist, Writer

A nation is the same people living in the same place.
James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish Novelist, Poet

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Journalist, Author

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
Walter Bagehot (1826–77) English Economist, Journalist

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.
Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer

The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.
Humphry Davy (1778–1829) British Chemist, Science Propagandist

The French complain of everything, and always.
Napoleon I (1769–1821) Emperor of France

The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure—but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.
Hubert Humphrey (1911–78) American Head of State, Politician

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Irish Satirist

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. “Patriotism” is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by “patriotism” I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one’s own nation, which is the concern with the nation’s spiritual as much as with its material welfare—never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.
Erich Fromm (1900–80) German-American Psychoanalyst, Social Philosopher

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
Moliere (1622–73) French Playwright

Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. Wells (1866–1946) English Novelist, Historian, Social Thinker

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American Novelist, Human Rights Activist

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
Douglas William Jerrold (1803–57) English Writer, Dramatist, Wit

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