Ovi Magazine Issue #24: Nationalism - Published: 2013-01-31

Quotes
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing
innocent people.” ― Howard Zinn
“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish
the natural resources, cherish the history and romance
as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s
children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin
your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“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, Imagine
“I should like to be able to love my country and still
love justice.” ― Albert Camus
“Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is
the measles of mankind.”
― Albert Einstein
“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
“Somebody must trespass on
the taboos of modern nationalism,
in the interests of human
reason. Business can’t. Diplomacy
won’t. It has to be people
like us.” ― Robert Byron
“People who enjoy waving flags don’t
deserve to have one” ― Banksy
“France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and
before the smile of liberty, France forgets
her wound.” ― Victor Hugo
“There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction
of a nation.” ― Homer B. Hulbert
“A nation’s not a child, for God’s
sake. ... It’s like a wild horse you
tame by breaking it. Or a fiery
woman you slap till she sees sense
and warms your bed.”
― David Hewson
“If one harbors anywhere
in one’s mind a
nationalistic loyalty or
hatred, certain facts,
though in a sense
known to be true,
are inadmissable.”
― George Orwell
“If the future remains
uncertain, we know
the past history of
nationalism. And that
should be sufficient to
encourage a habit of
watchful suspicion.”
― Michael Billig
“So it is the human condition that to wish
for the greatness of one’s fatherland is to
wish evil to one’s neighbors. The citizen
of the universe would be the man who
wishes his country never to be either
greater or smaller, richer or poorer.”
― Voltaire,
“I do not want that our loyalty as Indians should be in
the slightest way affected by any competitive loyalty
whether that loyalty arises out of our religion, out of
our culture or out of our language.
I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last and
nothing else but Indians.”
― Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
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