Nationalism is always an effort in a direction opposite to that of the principle which creates nations. The former is exclusive in tendency, the latter inclusive. In periods of consolidation, nationalism has a positive value, and is a lofty standard. But in Europe everything is more than consolidated, and nationalism is nothing but a mania, a pretext to escape from the necessity of inventing something new, some great enterprise.
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The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.
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In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds.
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Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
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Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those ""others"". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.
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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.
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On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.
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I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.
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Any extremism is dangerous
Why any kind of extremism is called dangerous?
This threat has emanated from unknown source
It has blinded all races and remained continuous
It has existed and can be contributed to many or various
Nationalism is termed as dangerous zone
The past tendency of religion with nationalism has gone
They have to passed various stages of transformation
As each nation is housed with different races die to annexation
Many new states have come with new boundaries
Their national sentiment and loyalty stands acid test and varies
Still something is keeping them together as special bondage
They co-exist as single entity and effectively manage
The national sentiment runs high in deep crisis
There is deep cry for elimination and emphasis
Certain ethnic cleansing is not ruled as reprisal
We have witnessed systematic extermination on reversals
No nation can claim free from dual representation
It can be considered as curse gift from its orientation
Why each religion has two sets of its origination?
When source was one and evils only faced elimination?
We have inherited wrong practice with the right
We preferred not peace but resorted to wrong fight
Not a single issue has found any solution
As a result there was enough mark of frustration and disillusion
Who was to take us to the prosperity and peace?
Who was to prove as torch bearer for the situation to ease?
The religion, nationalism or world to help at little extent
The broader understanding and tolerance was the right moment
Still there prevails tolerance and nations are afraid
The world has seen the fast disappearance of apartheid
Those who did not see eye to eye now exist side by side
The gap has been narrowed down but differences are still wide
So long as the disputes are confined to ideological differences
Or are awaiting boundary settlements with international references
Nothing can deteriorate or inflame the situation to dangerous level
Each nation knows where do they stand and have different story to tell
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I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
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Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.
The Philosopher
I have not heard a tiger who has killed another tiger
I have not heard a serpent killing another serpent
But a man kills another man
There man is different from another animal
If evolution Darwin style has at all taken place
Then it unconsciously explored diabolical values
Animated in man
It discovered modern states modern technology
Modern warfare and market Marxism and Nationalism
And the devils of men seldom fight for fightings sake
They fight either for democracy or for socialism
The philosopher of the devils
Whose head was full of a project of an international city
Where the richest men under the sun
Would excelsior to the sun belt of godliness
Being pent up in air conditioned houses
Declared that through these discoveries of nationalism
And internationalism the life divine will descend upon the scene
These philosophers can quicken the advent
Of the Doomsday
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
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Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
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The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever.
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There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.
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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
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I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.
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