#nationalism

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt. ↗

— John Adams

#fiscal-policy #national-debt #nationalism

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#prozac-nation #nationalism

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#nationalism #nationalism

I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#nationalism

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#charter #control #dynamism #enlightenment #enough

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

— Albert Einstein

#disease #infantile #mankind #measles #nationalism

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#civic #countries #dozens #nationalism #other

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought. ↗

— Juan Cole

#also #arab #argued #before #easy

Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#although #bodies #centuries #children #church

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#believe #between #deserves #distinction #fuzzy