Emma Goldman Quotes
Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
Goldman, Emma. Anarchism and Other Essays. Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1910, p. 133.
Note that Herder regarded foreign impressions and learning as not only desirable but important. Most extreme nationalists are xenophobic and fear any knowledge, law, ideas or understandings of other nations and cultures. Even in the United States, there are a few Americans who are terribly distressed whenever one of the participants in a legal case cites an opinion or study done in another country.
A Russian communist official was touring the U. S. The congressman took him to a modern supermarket in the Washington DC area and the Russian accused him of having it built for his tour.
The prime minister was advised to be more humble in her dealings with other statesmen. She had also told Moshe Dayan that he was not great enough to be humble.
Commenting to his comrade on how easily the Russian October revolution had gone: Vladimir Lenin
In the midst of the Vietnam War, U Thant, the Secretary General of the United Nations had tried to open back-channel communications to the North Vietnamese. Rusk came down hard on Thant, reminding him that he was only the Secretary General—the instrument of the states of the United Nations and was not a state himself and did not have the prerogatives of a state.
The French have for over 1000 years had a nationalistic ego that was, compared to other countries, very extreme. Highly nationalistic Frenchmen have almost always felt that the French were not proud enough of their exalted role in the history of human civilization. De Gaulle was the most extreme but Chevenement was not too far behind.
Emma Goldman was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.
