August Palm Quotes

Patriotism is a sham when it lets out the howl that the people of another nation are a pack of beasts and criminals, unrelated to the human family

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism is when hate for people other than your own comes first.

That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.

Nationalism … may be regarded as the greatest obstacle to mutual understanding between peoples.

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.

It graduates to 'our state is better than your state', and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.'

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

National pride may be a valuable possession, but when it becomes consciousness of racial superiority it ceases to be an Imperial virtue.

One Hundred Percent Americanism

Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country’s virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, “the greatest,” but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

Nationalism ... is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.

The bitter and agonizing fruit from the tree of nationality…

Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism

Patriotism is a noble feeling insofar as it approaches that which is purely human, but the very reverse the further it is removed therefrom.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American!

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

I think patriotism is never racism.

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.

Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians and Serbs, of Hungarians and Rumanians. It is evident to them that these enmities are absurd and that the belief of each little nation in its own superiority has no objective basis. But most of them are quite unable to see that the national pride of a Great Power is essentially as unjustifiable as that of a little Balkan country.

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.

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.