#nationalism

Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one ↗

— John Lennon

#dreams #idealism #nationalism #peace #religion

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#duty #nationalism #life

The revolution in global communications thus forces all nations to reconsider traditional ways of thinking about national sovereignty. ↗

— George Shultz

#nationalism #politics #communication

Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#nationalism #religion #faith

The inherent prejudice in unnaturally-produced nationalism causes a form of cultural blindness, which prevents us from seeing the obvious ways we could co-exist in the world as a co-operative human family. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#culture #humanity #prejudices-nationalism #family

The challenge to which these two groups responded was the interdependence of human kind, North and South, Rich and Pool, Industrialised and Rural, in the aftermath of the Second World War. To the United World College group it called for the establishment of a new kind of school where young people of all nations and backgrounds could live and learn together at the most formative period of their adolescence and so form those ties of friendship and understanding that would last them through their lives ↗

— Prince Charles HRH the Prince of Wales

#internationalism #united-world-colleges #uwc #youth #friendship

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#racism #pride

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#nationalism

Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster! ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#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