Nationalism

For

• Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
  • Muammar al-Gaddafi

• Nationalism is defined simply as: what makes you allowed to criticize your country when you have never done anything for it?
  • Putera S. Sambijantoro

• Our hearts where they rocked our cradle
  Our love where we spent our toil,
  And our faith, and our hope, and our honor,
  We pledge to our native soil.
  God gave all men all earth to love
  But since our hearts are small
  Ordained for each one spot should prove
  Beloved over all.
  • Rudyard Kipling

Against

• Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
  • Albert Einstein

• Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. "Patriotism" is its cult.
  • Erich Fromm, The Sane Society (1955)

• Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
  • Samuel Johnson

• Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
  • George Orwell

• Nationalism ... is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.
  • Dan Fried, US diplomat (Jan 07)