Gordon W. Allport Quotes

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.

Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.

Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.

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

It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.

… all that loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.

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

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

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

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.

Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.

There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance.