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George Reisman

George Gerald Reisman (born January 13, 1937) is an American economist and political author.

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 * Roy Cohn and Joe McCarthy will be redeemed when the people have taken back their government from the criminal alliance of Communists, Socialists, New Dealers and the Eisenhower-Dewey Republicans.
 * "Opinion: One Enchanted Evening", Time (August 9, 1954)

Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (1996)

 * The green movement, in other words, is the red movement stripped of the veneer of reason and science and bent on the destruction of reason and science rather than take the trouble to learn what reason and science actually are. The green movement is the red movement no longer in its boisterous, arrogant youth, but in its demented old age.

 * Like the use of the word 'concupiscence' in an earlier age to describe sexual desire, the use of the word 'pollution' to describe essential aspects of the productive activities of an industrial society represents an attempt to defame an entirely proper human capacity by means of using an evil sounding name for it.

 * Whoever claims that economic competition represents "survival of the fittest" in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

 * The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth.

 * The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

 * Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.

Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian (2005)

 * “Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian,” lecture delivered at the Mises Institute’s “The Economics of Fascism: Supporters Summit 2005” in Auburn, Alabama (October 8, 2005)

 * The identification of Nazi Germany as a socialist state was one of the many great contributions of Ludwig von Mises.

 * When one remembers that the word "Nazi" was an abbreviation for "der Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiters Partei" — in English translation: the National Socialist German Workers' Party — Mises's identification might not appear all that noteworthy. For what should one expect the economic system of a country ruled by a party with "socialist" in its name to be but socialism?

 * Private ownership of the means of production existed in name only under the Nazis and that the actual substance of ownership of the means of production resided in the German government. For it was the German government and not the nominal private owners that exercised all of the substantive powers of ownership: it, not the nominal private owners, decided what was to be produced, in what quantity, by what methods, and to whom it was to be distributed, as well as what prices would be charged and what wages would be paid, and what dividends or other income the nominal private owners would be permitted to receive.

 * If the individual [in Nazi Germany] is a means to the ends of the State, so too, of course, is his property. Just as he is owned by the State, his property is also owned by the State.

 * What specifically established de facto socialism in Nazi Germany was the introduction of price and wage controls in 1936.

 * The combination of price controls with this further set of controls constitutes the de facto socialization of the economic system. For it means that the government then exercises all of the substantive powers of ownership.

 * The requirements of enforcing a system of price and wage controls shed major light on the totalitarian nature of socialism — most obviously, of course, on that of the German or Nazi variant of socialism, but also on that of Soviet-style socialism as well.

 * The enforcement of price controls requires a government similar to that of Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Russia, in which practically anyone might turn out to be a police spy and in which a secret police exists and has the power to arrest and imprison people.

 * In any type of socialist state, Nazi or Communist, the government's economic plan is part of the supreme law of the land.

 * Nazis generally did not have to kill in order to seize the property of Germans other than Jews. This was because, as we have seen, they established socialism by stealth, through price controls, which served to maintain the outward guise and appearance of private ownership. The private owners were thus deprived of their property without knowing it and thus felt no need to defend it by force.

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Robert Venturi

Robert Charles Venturi (June 25, 1925 – September 18, 2018) was a Philadelphia-based architect who worked under Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn before forming his own firm with John Rauch.

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 * Less is a bore.
 * A parody of Mies van der Rohe's dictum "Less is more".
 * As quoted in Karsten Harries, The Ethical Function of Architecture, 1998, p. 8.

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)

 * Main Street is almost alright.

 * Perhaps it is the fate of all theorists to view the ripples from their works with mixed feelings. I have sometimes felt more comfortable with my critics than with those who have agreed with me. The latter have often misapplied or exaggerated the ideas and methods of this book to the point of parody. Some have said the ideas are fine but don't go far enough. But most of the thought here was intended to be suggestive rather than dogmatic, and the method of historical analogy can be taken only so far in architectural criticism.
 * Note to the Second Edition of Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1977)

 * I like complexity and contradiction in architecture. I do not like the incoherence or arbitrariness of incompetent architecture nor the precious intricacies of picturesqueness or expressionism.
 * 1. Nonstraightfoward Architecture: A Gentle Manifesto

 * But architecture is necessarily complex and contradictory in its very inclusion of the traditional Vitruvian elements of commodity, firmness, and delight. And today the wants of program, structure, mechanical equipment, and expression, even in single buildings in simple contexts, are diverse and conflicting in ways previously unimaginable.
 * 1. Nonstraightfoward Architecture: A Gentle Manifesto

 * I am for messy vitality over obvious unity.

 * I am for richness of meaning rather than clarity of meaning; for the implicit function as well as the explicit function.
 * 1. Nonstraightfoward Architecture: A Gentle Manifesto

 * Orthodox Modern architects have tended to recognize complexity insufficiently or inconsistently. In their attempt to break with tradition and start all over again, they idealized the primitive and elementary at the expense of the diverse and the sophisticated.
 * 2. Complexity and Contradiction vs. Simplification or Picturesqueness

 * Rationalizations for simplification are still current, however, though subtler than the early arguments.
 * 2. Complexity and Contradiction vs. Simplification or Picturesqueness

 * Nor does complexity deny the valid simplification which is part of the process of analysis, and even a method of achieving complex architecture itself.
 * 2. Complexity and Contradiction vs. Simplification or Picturesqueness

 * The calculated ambiguity of expression is based on the confusion of experience as reflected in the architectural program.
 * 3. Ambiguity

 * The double meanings inherent in the phenomenon both-and can involve metamorphosis as well as contradiction. I have described how the omni-directional spire of the tower of Christ Church, Spitalfields, evolves into a directional pavilion at its base, but a perceptual rather than a formal kind of change in meaning is possible. In equivocal relationships one contradictory meaning usually dominates another, but in complex compositions the relationship is not always constant. This is especially true as the observer moves through or around a building, and by extension through a city: at one moment one meaning can be perceived as dominant; at another moment a different meaning seems paramount.
 * 4. Contradictory Levels: The Phenomenon of "Both-And" in Architecture

 * The essential purpose of the interiors of buildings is to enclose rather than direct space, and to separate the inside from the outside
 * 9. The Inside and the Outside

 * Architecture as the wall between the inside and the outside becomes the spatial record of this resolution and its drama. And by recognizing the difference between the inside and the outside, architecture opens the door once again to an urbanistic point of view.
 * 9. The Inside and the Outside

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Simonides of Ceos

Simonides of Ceos (c. 556 BC – 469 BC) was a Greek lyric poet.

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κείμεθα τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι. (wrongly attributed) keimetha tois keinōn rhēmasi peithomenoi.'' O stranger, announce to the Lacadaemonians [Spartans] that here We lie, to their words [or laws] obedient. That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.''' That here obedient to their laws we lie. That we, who lie here, did as we were ordered. We remain, obedient to their orders. That here we lie, obeying their words. that here by Spartan law we lie. stranger passing by, that here, obedient to Spartan law, we dead of Sparta lie
 * ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε
 * ''Ō xein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti tē(i)de
 * [Word-for-word translation]
 * '''Go, tell the Spartans, stranger passing by
 * Epitaph on the Cenotaph of Thermopylae, recorded by Herodotus.
 * Note: There is a long unsolved dispute around the interpretation of the word rhemasi, such as laws, words or orders.
 * Variant translations:
 * Go, tell the Spartans, thou who passest by,
 * Stranger, go tell the men of Lacedaemon
 * Stranger, bring the message to the Spartans that here
 * Oh foreigner, tell the Lacedaemonians
 * Go, tell the Spartans, passerby,
 * Go, tell the Spartans

When the Medes crossed Spercheius' tide. A great seer, yet he scorned to save Himself, and shared the Spartans' grave.
 * Here lies Megistias, who died
 * Epitaph of the Spartan Diviner, Megistias, at Thermopylae

 * ἀνάγκῃ δ᾽ οὐδὲ θεοὶ μάχονται.
 * "Anankei d' oude theoi makhontai."
 * Not even the gods fight against necessity.
 * Quoted by Plato in the dialogue Protagoras, 345d (Simonides Fr. 37.1.27 ff.).
 * Variant translations:
 * The gods do not fight against necessity.
 * Not even the gods war against necessity.
 * I praise and love all men who do no sin willingly; but with necessity even the gods do not contend.

 * We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.
 * From the Cenotaph at the Isthmos

 * … ζωγραφίαν ποίησιν σιωπῶσαν προσαγορεύει [sc. ὁ Σιμωνίδης], τὴν δὲ ποίησιν ζωγραφίαν λαλοῦσαν.
 * … zographian poiesin sioposan prosagoreuei, ten de poiesin zographian lalousan.
 * Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks.
 * Quoted by Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium 3.346f.
 * Variant translations:
 * Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
 * Painting is silent poetry, poetry is eloquent painting.
 * See also: Ut pictura poesis

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I moved this from "Simonides" to "Simonides of Keos" and then to Simonides of Ceos, to match the name of the Wikipedia article, and to make redirects ~ Kalki 17:41, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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 * A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.
 * Variant translation: Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life.

 * Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?

 * It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.

 * The city is the teacher of the man.

 * There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

 * We count it death to falter, not to die.

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User talk:Trotski 1989

Welcome to Wikiquote. I am concerned that you have moved Wikiquote: How to edit a page to "Maviar". The page has apparently been vandalized and no longer has its proper contents, but many pages link to it, and I am going to move it back, and edit it to one of the earlier legitimate versions. In reverting many edits by particular known vandals I do not always check the contents of the page, and this had apparently had vandalizations that went unnoticed by me for some time. Some new pages can be moved safely and easily, but this is an old page with important links, and should go back to where it was. I am going to do a little maintenance work now. ~ Kalki 19:46, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Wikiquote talk:How to edit a page

This page still needs much updating, but I will probably not have the time to do all that it needs today. Within the next few days I should be able to thoroughly update it. ~ Kalki 19:57, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Inspired by LiquidFire, I've made many fixes to external articles (especially to Wikipedia and Meta-Wiki. We still need to have many examples converted to Wikiquote versions. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:02, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

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Most of the content of this page seems to have been replaced in Wikimedia by Help:Editing. As "How to edit a page" is prominently featured in our current welcome messages, we should somehow synchronize these pages or redirect this page so that new editors are directed to the most complete information. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:09, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

 * This page is must definitely not obsolete. As a new user this page has been super useful and it would be difficult for a new user especially to have to go to Wikimedia.Just A Regular New Yorker (talk) 20:45, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

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King of the Hill

 * Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 | Main

King of the Hill (1997-2010) is an American animated sitcom that aired on Fox. The show centers around the Hill family, whose head is the ever-responsible, hard-working, loyal, disciplined, and honest Hank Hill.

Seasons

 * Season 1
 * Season 2
 * Season 3
 * Season 4
 * Season 5
 * Season 6
 * Season 7
 * Season 8
 * Season 9
 * Season 10
 * Season 11
 * Season 12
 * Season 13

Cast

 * Mike Judge - Hank Rutherford Hill and Jeff Boomhauer
 * Kathy Najimy - Margaret "Peggy" J. Platter Hill
 * Pamela Adlon - Robert Jeffrey "Bobby" Hill
 * Johnny Hardwick - Dale Alvin Gribble A.K.A."Rusty Shackleford"
 * Stephen Root - Sgt. William "Bill" Fontaine Delatour Dauterive
 * Brittany Murphy - Luanne Leanne Platter Kleinschmidt

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Schindler's List

Schindler's List is a 1993 film about German entrepreneur Oskar Schindler, who was instrumental in saving the lives of over one thousand Polish Jews during the Holocaust. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1993.
 * Directed by Steven Spielberg. Written by Steven Zaillian, based on the novel "Schindler's Ark" by Thomas Keneally.

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire. ( taglines )

Oskar Schindler

 * [To Pfefferberg] Boxed teas are good, coffee, pâté, um, kiełbasa sausage, cheeses, beluga caviar. And of course, who could live without German cigarettes, as many as you can find. And some more fresh fruit – the real rarities: oranges, lemons, pineapples. I need several boxes of Cuban cigars, the best. And dark unsweetened chocolate, not in the shape of lady fingers, the chunk chocolate, big as my hand. You sample it at wine tastings. We're going to need lots of cognac, the best – Hennessy. Dom Pérignon champagne. Get L'Espadon sardines. And, oh, try to find nylon stockings.
 * It is my distinct pleasure to announce the fully operational status of Deutsche Email Fabrik – manufacturers of superior enamelware crockery, expressly designed and crafted for military use, utilizing only the most modern equipment. DEF's staff of highly skilled and experienced artisans and journeymen deliver a product of unparalleled quality, enabling me to proffer with absolute confidence and pride, a full line of field and kitchen ware unsurpassable in all respects by my competitors. See attached list and available colors. Anticipating the enclosed bids will meet with your approval, and looking forward to a long and mutually prosperous association, I extend to you, in advance, my sincerest gratitude and very best regards. Oskar Schindler.
 * [To Gestapo men, as they are arresting him] I'm not saying you'll regret it, but you might. You should be aware of that.
 * I violated the Race and Resettlement Act. Though I doubt anyone can point out the actual provision to me. I kissed a Jewish girl.
 * The train with the women has already left Płaszów and will be arriving here very shortly. I know you've had a long journey, but it's only a short walk further to the factory where hot soup and bread is waiting for you. Welcome to Brinnlitz.
 * What are you doing? These are mine. These are my workers. They should be on my train. They're skilled munitions workers. They're essential. Essential girls. Their fingers polish the insides of shell metal casings. How else am I to polish the inside of a 45 millimeter shell casing? You tell me. You tell me!
 * [To Brinnlitz guards] Under Department W provisions, it is unlawful to kill a worker without just cause. Under the Businesses Compensation Fund, I am entitled to file damage claims for such deaths. If you shoot without thinking, you go to prison, I get paid. That's how it works. So, there will be no summary executions here. There will be no interference of any kind with production. In hopes of ensuring that, guards will no longer be allowed on the factory floor without my authorization. [To the Commanding Officer, Josef Liepold] For your cooperation, you have my gratitude.
 * [To his wife, Emilie] No doorman or Maître D' will ever mistake you again. I promise.
 * The unconditional surrender of Germany has just been announced. At midnight tonight, the war is over. Tomorrow you'll begin the process of looking for survivors of your families. In most cases … you won't find them. After six long years of murder, victims are being mourned throughout the world. We've survived. Many of you have come up to me and thanked me. Thank yourselves. Thank your fearless Stern, and others among you who worried about you and faced death at every moment. I am a member of the Nazi Party. I'm a munitions manufacturer. I'm a profiteer of slave labor. I am … a criminal. At midnight, you'll be free and I'll be hunted. I shall remain with you until five minutes after midnight, after which time – and I hope you'll forgive me – I have to flee. [To the factory's SS guards] I know you have received orders from our commandant, which he has received from his superiors, to dispose of the population of this camp. Now would be the time to do it. Here they are; they're all here. This is your opportunity. … Or, you could leave, and return to your families as men instead of murderers. [The guards gradually exit; he addresses the workers again] In memory of the countless victims among your people, I ask us to observe three minutes of silence.

Amon Goeth

 * Today is history. Today will be remembered. Years from now the young will ask with wonder about this day. Today is history and you are part of it. Six hundred years ago when elsewhere they were footing the blame for the Black Death, Kazimierz the Great – so called – told the Jews they could come to Krakow. They came. They trundled their belongings into the city. They settled. They took hold. They prospered in business, science, education, the arts. They came with nothing. Nothing. And they flourished. For six centuries there has been a Jewish Krakow. Think about that. By this evening, those six centuries are a rumor. They never happened. Today is history.
 * [To Stern] Goldberg and Chilowicz make sure I see my cut from the factory owners in this camp, leaving you to take care of my main account – the Schindler account. He wants his independence. I gave it to him. But independence costs money. This you understand? [Stern nods] Look at me. Don't forget who you are working for now.
 * [To Helen] I came to tell you that you really are a wonderful cook and a well-trained servant. I mean it. If you need a reference after the war, I'd be happy to give you one. It's kind of lonely down here, it seems, with everyone upstairs having such a good time. Does it? You can answer. "What was the right answer?" That's – that's what you're thinking. "What does he want to hear?" The truth, Helen, is always the right answer. Yes, you're right. Sometimes we're both lonely. Yes, I mean, I would like, so much, to reach out and touch you in your loneliness. What would that be like, I wonder? I mean, what would be wrong with that? I realize that you're not a person in the strictest sense of the word. Maybe you're right about that too. You know, maybe what's wrong isn't – it's not us – it's this. I mean, when they compare you to vermin and to rodents and to lice, I just, uh … you make a good point, a very good point. [He strokes her hair] Is this the face of a rat? Are these the eyes of a rat? "Hath not a Jew eyes?" I feel for you, Helen. [He decides not to kiss her] No, I don't think so. You're a Jewish bitch. You nearly talked me into it, didn't you? [He beats her]
 * [Defending Schindler] He likes women. He likes good-looking women. He sees a beautiful woman – he doesn't think. He has so many women. They love him, yeah, they love him. I mean, he's married, yeah, but … all right, she was Jewish, he shouldn't have done it, but you didn't see this girl. I saw this girl. This girl was, wuff, very good-looking. They cast a spell on you, you know, the Jews. When you work closely with them like I do, you see this. They have this power, it's like a virus. Some of my men are infected with this virus. They should be pitied, not punished. They should receive treatment, because this is as real as typhus. I see this all the time. It's a matter of money, hm?
 * [Supervising the incineration of bodies buried near Płaszów] Can you believe this? As if I don't have enough to do, they come up with this? I have to find every rag buried up here and burn it. The party's over, Oskar. They're closing us down, sending everybody to Auschwitz … as soon as I can arrange the shipments, maybe 30, 40 days. That ought to be fun.
 * [Before being hanged] Heil Hitler. [The chair underneath is kicked out, and he is hanged to death]

Itzhak Stern

 * Herr Direktor, don't let the things fall apart. I worked too hard.
 * [To Schindler, presenting a ring] It's Hebrew from the Talmud. It says, "Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire."

Marcel Goldberg

 * It's illegal to buy or sell anything on the street. We don't do that. We're here to pray.
 * I'm a policeman now, could you believe it? That's what's hard to believe … it's a good racket, Poldek. It's the only racket here. Look, maybe I could put in a good word for you with my superiors … come on, they're not as bad as everyone says. Well, they're worse than everyone says, but it's a lot of money, a lot of money.

Others

 * SS officer: This storm is different. This is not the Romans. This storm is the SS.
 * Jewish Woman: [to the Judenrat] They come into our house and tell us we don't live there anymore. It now belongs to a certain SS officer … aren't you supposed to be able to help?
 * Mr. Lowenstein: The SS beat me up. They would have killed me, but I'm essential to the war effort, thanks to you. … I work hard for you. … I'll continue to work hard for you. … God bless you, sir. … You're a good man. … [to Stern] He saved my life. … God bless him. … [to Schindler] God bless you.
 * Clerk: [to Schindler, about Stern] I'm sorry. You can't have him. He's on the list. If he were an essential worker, he would not be on the list … it makes no difference to us, you understand. This one, that one. It's the inconvenience to the list. It's the paperwork.
 * SS Officer: [to Schindler, about relocating to Płaszów] Since your labor is housed onsite, it's available to you at all times. You can work them all night if you want. Your factory policies, whatever they've been in the past, they'll continue to be, they'll be respected.
 * Oberführer Scherner: [to Schindler] We give you Jewish girls at five marks a day, Oskar. You should kiss us, not them. God forbid you ever get a real taste for Jewish skirt – there's no future in it. No future. They don't have a future. And that's not just good old-fashioned Jew-hating talk. It's policy now.
 * Winston Churchill (on radio): Yesterday morning, at 2:41 AM, at General Eisenhower's headquarters, General Jodl signed the act of unconditional surrender of all German land, sea, and air forces in Europe to the Allied Expeditionary Force and simultaneously to the Soviet High Command. The German war is therefore at an end. But let us not forget for a moment …
 * Rabbi Lewartow: [to Schindler] We've written a letter trying to explain things in case you are captured. Every worker has signed it.
 * End titles: Amon Goeth was arrested while a patient in a sanatorium at Bad Tolz. He was hanged in Krakow for crimes against humanity. … Oskar Schindler failed at his marriage and several businesses after the war. … in 1958, he was declared a righteous person by the council of the Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, and invited to plant a tree in the Avenue of the Righteous. It grows there still. … The Schindler Jews today. … There are fewer than four thousand Jews left alive in Poland today. There are more than six thousand descendants of the Schindler Jews. … In memory of the more than six million Jews murdered.

Dialogue

 * Schindler: There's a company you did the books for on Lipowa Street, made what – pots and pans?
 * Stern: By law, I have to tell you, sir, I'm a Jew.
 * Schindler: Well, I'm a German, so there we are. A good company, you think?
 * Stern: Modestly successful.
 * Schindler: I know nothing about enamelware, do you?
 * Stern: I was just the accountant.
 * Schindler: Simple engineering, though, wouldn't you think? Change the machines around, whatever you do, you could make other things, couldn't you? Field kits, mess kits, army contracts. Once the war ends, forget it, but for now it's great. You could make a fortune, don't you think?
 * Stern: I think most people right now have other priorities.
 * Schindler: Like what?
 * Stern: I'm sure you'll do just fine once you get the contracts. In fact, the worse things get, the better you will do.
 * Schindler: Oh, I can get the signatures I need – that's the easy part. Finding the money to buy the company, that's hard.
 * Stern: You don't have any money?
 * Schindler: Not that kind of money. You know anybody? Jews, yeah. Investors. You must have contacts in the Jewish business community working here.
 * Stern: What "community"? Jews can no longer own businesses. That's why this one's in receivership.
 * Schindler: Ah, but they wouldn't own it. I'd own it. I'd pay them back in product. Pots and pans.
 * Stern: Pots and pans.
 * Schindler: Something they can use. Something they can feel in their hands. They can trade it on the black market, do whatever they want. Everybody's happy. If you want, you could run the company for me.
 * Stern: Let me understand. They'd put up all the money. I'd do all the work. But what, if you don't mind my asking, would you do?
 * Schindler: I'd make sure it's known the company's in business. I'd see that it had a certain panache. That's what I'm good at, not the work, not the work – the presentation. [long pause as Schindler drags on his cigarette]
 * Stern: ...I'm sure I don't know anybody who'd be interested in this.
 * Schindler: Well, they should be, Itzhak Stern. Tell them they should be.

 * Pfefferberg: Do you have any idea how much a shirt like this costs?
 * Schindler: Nice things cost money.
 * Pfefferberg: How many?
 * Schindler: I'm going to need some other things too as things come up …
 * Pfefferberg: This won't be a problem.
 * Schindler: … from time to time.

 * Schindler: For each thousand you invest, I will repay you with two hundred kilos of enamelware a month, to begin in July and to continue for one year – after which time we're even. That's it. It's very simple.
 * Investor: Not good enough …
 * Schindler: Not good enough? Look where you're living. Look where you've been put. "Not good enough." A couple of months ago, you'd be right. Not anymore.
 * Investor: Money's still money.
 * Schindler: No, it is not. That's why we're here. Trade goods, that's the only currency that'll be worth anything in the ghetto. Things have changed, my friend. Did I call this meeting? You told Mr. Stern you wanted to speak to me. I'm here. I've made you a fair offer.
 * Investor: Fair would be a percentage of the company.
 * Schindler: [laughs] Forget the whole thing. Get out.
 * Investor: How do we know that you will do what you say?
 * Schindler: Because I said I would. Do you want a contract? To be upheld by what court? I said what I'll do, that's our contract.

 * Stern: The standard SS rate for Jewish skilled labor is seven marks a day, five for unskilled and women. This is what you pay the Reich Economic Office, the Jews themselves receive nothing. Poles you pay wages. Generally, they get a little more. Are you listening? … The Jewish worker's salary – you pay it directly to the SS, not to the worker. He gets nothing.
 * Schindler: But it's less. It's less than what I would pay a Pole … that's the point I'm trying to make. Poles cost more. Why should I hire Poles?

 * Schindler: My father was fond of saying you need three things in life. A good doctor, a forgiving priest, and a clever accountant. The first two, I've never had much use for them. But the third …
 * [Schindler raises his glass to recognize Stern, but the accountant doesn't respond]
 * Schindler: Just pretend, for Christ's sake.
 * [Stern mechanically raises his glass slightly]
 * Stern: Is that all?
 * Schindler: I'm trying to thank you. I'm saying I couldn't have done this without you. The usual thing would be to acknowledge my gratitude. It would also, by the way, be the courteous thing.
 * Stern: You're welcome.

 * [Stern brings a report to Schindler's office at lunchtime]
 * Schindler: I could try to read this, or I could eat my lunch while it's still hot. We're doing well?
 * Stern: Yes.
 * Schindler: Better this month than last?
 * Stern: Yes.
 * Schindler: Any reason to think next month will be worse?
 * Stern: The war could end.

 * Schindler: Three hundred and fifty workers on the factory floor with one purpose … to make money – for me! … They won't soon forget the name Schindler, either. I can tell you that. Oskar Schindler, they'll say. Everybody remembers him. He did something extraordinary. He did something no one else did. He came here with nothing, a suitcase, and built a bankrupt company into a major manufactory. And left with a steamer trunk, two steamer trunks, full of money. All the riches of the world. … There's no way I could have known this before, but there was always something missing. In every business I tried, I can see now it wasn't me that had failed. Something was missing. Even if I'd known what it was, there's nothing I could have done about it, because you can't create this thing. And it makes all the difference in the world between success and failure.
 * Emilie: Luck.
 * Schindler: War.

 * Stern: I somehow left my work card at home. I tried to explain them it was a mistake, but … I'm sorry, it was stupid.
 * Schindler: What if I got here five minutes later? Then where would I be?

 * Reiter: Herr Kommandant! The entire foundation has to be torn down and repoured. If not, there will be at least a subsidence at the southern end of the barracks. Subsidence, and then collapse.
 * Goeth: And you are an engineer?
 * Reiter: Yes. My name is Diana Reiter. I'm a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Milan.
 * Goeth: Ah, an educated Jew … like Karl Marx himself. Unterscharführer!
 * Hujar: Jawohl?
 * Goeth: Shoot her.
 * Reiter: Herr Kommandant! I'm only trying to do my job!
 * Goeth: Ja, I'm doing mine.
 * Hujar: Sir, she's foreman of construction.
 * Goeth: We're not going to have arguments with these people.
 * [Hujar starts to drag Reiter away; Goeth stops him]
 * Goeth: No. Shoot her here, on my authority.
 * Reiter: It will take more than that …
 * Goeth: I'm sure you're right.
 * [Reiter is shot]
 * Goeth: Take it down, repour it, rebuild it, like she said.

 * Pfefferberg: I respectfully report I've been given orders to clear the bundles from the road so there will be no obstructions to the thoroughfare.
 * Goeth: [laughing] Finish and join the lines, little Polish clicking soldier.

 * Adam Levy: [to the SS troops] I've searched the building. There's no one here. … [to Mrs. Dresner] Come with me. I will put you in the good line.
 * Mrs. Dresner: Do you know the saying, "An hour of life is still life"? You are not a boy anymore. I'll say a blessing for you.

 * Schindler: I go to work the other day. Nobody's there. Nobody tells me about this. I have to find out, I have to go in. Everybody's gone.
 * Goeth: They're not gone. They're here.
 * Schindler: They're mine! Every day that goes by, I'm losing money. Every worker that is shot costs me money. I have to find somebody else. I have to train them.
 * Goeth: We're going to be making so much money, none of this is going to matter.
 * Schindler: It's bad business.
 * Goeth: Scherner told me something else about you.
 * Schindler: Yeah, what's that?
 * Goeth: That you know the meaning of the word "gratitude". That it's not some vague thing with you like it is with others. You want to stay where you are. You've got things going on the side, things are good. You don't want anybody telling you what to do. I can understand all that. You know, I know you. What you want is your own sub-camp. Do you have any idea what's involved? The paperwork alone? Forget you got to build the fucking thing, getting the fucking permits is enough to drive you crazy. Then the engineers show up. They stand around, they argue about drainage, foundations, codes, exact specifications, parallel fences four kilometers long, twelve hundred kilograms of barbed wire, six thousand kilograms of electrified fences … I'm telling you, you'll want to shoot somebody. I've been through it, you know, I know.
 * Schindler: Well, you know, you've been through it. You could make things easier for me. [Goeth shrugs] I'd be grateful.

 * Goeth: What I don't understand is that you've been working since I think what, about six this morning, yet such a small pile of hinges.
 * [Lewartow is led out to be shot, but Goeth's gun won't fire]
 * Lewartow: [closing his eyes, his voice shaking with terror] Herr Kommandant, I beg to report that my heap of hinges was so unsatisfactory because the machines were being re-calibrated this morning. I was put onto shoveling coal.
 * [Goeth slams the gun into Lewartow's head]

 * Schindler: So, what can I do for you?
 * Krause: They say that no one dies here. They say your factory is a haven. They say you are good.
 * Schindler: Who says that?
 * Krause: Everyone. My name is Regina Perlman, not Elsa Krause. I've been living in Krakow on false papers since the ghetto massacre. My parents are in Płaszów. Their names are Chana and Jakob Perlman. They are older people. They're killing older people now in Płaszów. They bury them up in the forest. Look, I don't have any money. I – I borrowed these clothes, I'm begging you – please, please bring them here.
 * Schindler: I don't do that. You've been misled. I ask one thing: whether or not a worker has certain skills. That's what I ask and that's what I care about … such activities are illegal. You will not entrap me, Miss Krause. [Krause starts to cry] Cry and I'll have you arrested, I swear to God.

 * Schindler: People die, it's a fact of life. He wants to kill everybody? Great, what am I supposed to do about it?! Bring everybody over? Is that what you think? "Send them over to Schindler, send them all. His place is a 'haven', didn't you know? It's not a factory, it's not an enterprise of any kind, it's a haven for rabbis and orphans and people with no skills whatsoever." You think I don't know what you're doing? You're so quiet all the time. I know, I know.
 * Stern: Are you losing money?
 * Schindler: No, I'm not losing money. That's not the point.
 * Stern: What other point is –
 * Schindler: It's dangerous! It's dangerous to me. You have to understand, Goeth is under enormous pressure. You have to think of it in his situation. He's got this whole place to run, he's responsible for everything that goes on here, all these people; he's got a lot of things to worry about. And he's got the war. Which brings out the worst in people. Never the good, always the bad. Always the bad. But in normal circumstances, he wouldn't be like this. He'd be all right. There'd just be the good aspects of him, which... he's a wonderful crook. A man who loves good food, good wine, the ladies, making money-
 * Stern: killing.
 * Schindler: He can't enjoy it.
 * Stern: Boyevski told me the other day. (Montage of Goeth murdering prisoners as Stern describes it) Somebody escaped from a work detail outside the wire. Goeth lined up everybody from the missing man's barracks. He shot the man to the left of Byevski, the man to the right. He walked down the line, shooting every other man with a pistol. (pause) Twenty-five.
 * Schindler: (defensively) What do you want me to do about it?!
 * Stern: Nothing, nothing. We're just talking.
 * Schindler: [pause, he pulls out a slip of paper] Perlman. Husband and wife.

 * Schindler: Why don't you build yourself up?
 * Helen: My first day here, he beat me because I threw out the bones from dinner. He came down to the basement at midnight and he asked me where they were – for his dogs … I said to him, "Why are you beating me?" He said, "The reason I beat you now is because you ask why I beat you."
 * Schindler: I know your sufferings.
 * Helen: It doesn't matter. I have accepted them … one day, he will shoot me.
 * Schindler: No, he won't shoot you.
 * Helen: I know. I see things. We were on the roof on Monday, young Lisiek and I, and we saw the Herr Kommandant come out of the front door and down the steps by the patio right there below us. And there on the steps, he drew his gun – he shot a woman who was passing by. A woman carrying a bundle, through the throat. Just – just a woman on her way somewhere. You know, she – she was no fatter or thinner or slower or faster than anyone else and I couldn't guess what had she done. The more you see of Herr Kommandant, the more you see there is no set rules that you can live by. You can't say to yourself, "if I follow these rules, I will be safe."
 * Schindler: He won't shoot you because he enjoys you too much. He enjoys you so much, he won't even let you wear the star. He doesn't want anyone else to know it's a Jew he's enjoying. He shot the woman from the steps because she meant nothing to him. She was one of a series – neither offending or pleasing him. But you, Helen. [he leans closer, as she pulls away] It's all right. It's not that kind of a kiss. [he tenderly kisses her on the forehead]

 * Schindler: A wonderful party, Amon. Thank you. [Goeth, who is very drunk, leans back, then slips and falls to the floor] Why do you drink that motor oil?  Hmmm? I send you good stuff, all the time. Your liver's going to explode, like a hand grenade.
 * Goeth: [clumsily sits down] You know, I look at you. I watch you. You're not a drunk. That's, that's real control. Control is power. That's power.
 * Schindler: Is that why they fear us?
 * Goeth: We have the fucking power to kill, that's why they fear us.
 * Schindler: They fear us because we have the power to kill arbitrarily. A man commits a crime, he should know better. We have him killed and we feel pretty good about it. Or we kill him ourselves and we feel even better. That's not power, though, that's justice. That's different than power. Power is when we have every justification to kill... and we don't.
 * Goeth: You think that's power.
 * Schindler: That's what the emperors had. A man stole something, he's brought in before the emperor, he throws himself down on the ground, he begs for mercy, he knows he's going to die. And the emperor pardons him. This worthless man, he lets him go.
 * Goeth: I think you are drunk.
 * Schindler: That's power, Amon. That is power. [leans back, gestures toward Goeth as a merciful emperor] Amon the Good.
 * Goeth: [he smiles and laughs] I pardon you.

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 * Schindler: What do you say we get your fire hoses out here and hose down the cars? Indulge me.
 * Goeth: This is really cruel, Oskar, you're giving them hope. You shouldn't do that. That's cruel!

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 * Schindler: I'm going home. I've done what I came here for. I've got more money than any man can spend in a lifetime. … Someday this is all going to end, you know. I was going to say we'll have a drink then.
 * Stern: I think I'd better have it now.

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 * Goeth: You want these people?
 * Schindler: These people, my people, I want my people.
 * Goeth: Who are you, Moses? Come on, what is this? Where's the money in this, where's the scam?
 * Schindler: It's good business.
 * Goeth: Yeah, it's "good business" in your opinion. Look, you've got to move them, the equipment, everything to Czechoslovakia, pay for all that and build another camp. It doesn't make any sense … you're not telling me something.
 * Schindler: It's good for me. I know them, I'm familiar with them, I don't have to train them. It's good for you. I'll compensate you … it's good for the Army. You know what I'm going to make? … Artillery shells … tank shells. They need that, everybody's happy.
 * Goeth: Everyone's happy except me. You're probably scamming me somehow. If I'm making a hundred, you've got to be making three. And if you admit to making three, then it's four, actually. But how?
 * Schindler: I just told you.
 * Goeth: Yeah, you did, but you didn't. Yeah, all right, don't tell me, I'll go along with it. It's just irritating I can't work it out.
 * Schindler: Look, all you have to do is tell me what it's worth to you. What's a person worth to you?
 * Goeth: No, no, no, no. What's one worth to you?

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 * Stern: How many cigarettes have you smoked tonight?
 * Schindler: Too many.
 * Stern: [coughing] For every one you smoke, I smoke half.

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 * Schindler: That's it. You can finish that page.
 * Stern: What did Goeth say about this? You just told him how many people you needed, and – you're not buying them. You're buying them? You're paying him for each of these names?
 * Schindler: If you were still working for me, I'd expect you to talk me out of it. It's costing me a fortune. Finish the page and leave one space at the bottom.
 * Stern: The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf.

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 * Goeth: Oskar, there's a clerical error here at the bottom of the last page.
 * Schindler: No, there's one more name I want to put there. I'll never find a maid as well trained as her at Brinnlitz. They are all country girls.
 * Goeth: [referring to Helen] No. No.
 * Schindler: One hand of twenty-one. If you win, I pay you 7,400 Reichsmarks. Hit a natural and I make it 14,800. If I win, the girl goes on my list.
 * Goeth: I can't wager Helen in a card game.
 * Schindler: Why not?
 * Goeth: Wouldn't be right.
 * Schindler: She's going to Auschwitz Number Two anyway. What difference does it make?
 * Goeth: She's not going to Auschwitz. I'd never do that to her. No, I want her to come back to Vienna with me. I want her to come to work for me there. I want to grow old with her.
 * Schindler: Are you mad? Amon, you can't take her to Vienna with you.
 * Goeth: No, of course I can't. That's what I'd like to do. What I can do, if I'm any sort of a man, is the next most merciful thing. I should take her into the woods and shoot her painlessly in the back of the head. What was it you said for a natural 21? Was it 14,800?

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 * Mrs. Dresner: Sir, a mistake has been made. We're not supposed to be here. We work for Oskar Schindler. We're Schindler Jews.
 * Dr. Mengele: Who is Oskar Schindler?
 * Auschwitz Guard: He had a factory in Krakow. Enamelware.
 * Dr. Mengele: A potmaker.

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 * Hoss: I have a shipment coming in tomorrow. I'll cut you three hundred units from it. New ones. These are fresh. The train comes, we turn it around. It's yours.
 * Schindler: Yes, I understand. I want these.
 * Hoss: You shouldn't get stuck on names. That's right. It creates a lot of paperwork.

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 * Stern: We've received an angry complaint from the Armaments Board. The artillery shells, tank shells, rocket casings, apparently all of them have failed quality-control tests.
 * Schindler: Well, that's to be expected – start-up problems. This isn't pots and pans. This is a precise business. I'll write them a letter.
 * Stern: They're withholding payment.
 * Schindler: Sure, so would I, so would you. I wouldn't worry about it. We'll get it right one of these days.
 * Stern: There's a rumor you've been going around miscalibrating the machines. They could shut us down, send us back to Auschwitz.
 * Schindler: I'll call around, find out where we can buy shells, pass them off as ours.
 * Stern: I don't see the difference whether they're made here or somewhere else.
 * Schindler: You don't see a difference? I see a difference.
 * Stern: You'll lose a lot of money, that's the difference.
 * Schindler: Fewer shells will be made. Stern, if this factory ever produces a shell that can actually be fired, I'll be very unhappy.

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 * [Inside the Brinnlitz factory, Schindler finds Rabbi Lewartow machining a shell casing]
 * Schindler: How are you doing, Rabbi? …Rabbi!
 * [Lewartow stops working and turns to him]
 * Lewartow: Good, Herr Direktor.
 * Schindler: Sun's going down.
 * Lewartow: Yes, it is.
 * Schindler: What day is this? Friday? It is Friday, isn't it?
 * Lewartow: Is it?
 * Schindler: What's the matter with you? You should be preparing for the Sabbath, shouldn't you? I've got some wine, in my office. Come.

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 * Stern: Do you have any money hidden away someplace that I don't know about?
 * Schindler: No. Why, am I broke?
 * Stern: Uh, well …

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 * Schindler: I could have got more out. I could have got more. I don't know. If I'd just … I could have got more.
 * Stern: Oskar, there are eleven hundred people who are alive because of you. Look at them.
 * Schindler: If I'd made more money … I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I'd just …
 * Stern: There will be generations because of what you did.
 * Schindler: I didn't do enough!
 * Stern: You did so much.
 * [Schindler looks at his car]
 * Schindler: This car. Goeth would have bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people.
 * [Removing Nazi pin from lapel]
 * Schindler: This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. He would've given me one, one more. One more person. A person, Stern. For this. I could have gotten one more person... [collapses, sobbing] And I didn't! I-I didn't!
 * [Emilie, Stern, and the nearest workers crowd in and embrace Schindler]

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 * Soviet officer: You have been liberated by the Soviet Army!
 * Stern: Have you been in Poland?
 * Soviet officer: I just came from Poland.
 * Stern: Are there any Jews left?
 * Lemper: Where should we go?
 * Soviet officer: Don't go east, that's for sure. They hate you there. I wouldn't go west either, if I were you.
 * Nowak: We could use some food.
 * Soviet officer: [pointing toward the town of Brinnlitz] Isn't that a town over there?

Taglines

 * Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.
 * The List Is Life.
 * A story of courage that the world needs now more than ever.
 * Una vela no pierde su luz por compartirla con otra. (Spanish, "A candle loses nothing by lighting another", attributed to Father James Keller)

Cast

 * Liam Neeson – Oskar Schindler
 * Ben Kingsley – Itzhak Stern
 * Ralph Fiennes – Amon Goeth
 * Caroline Goodall – Emilie Schindler
 * Jonathan Sagall – Poldek Pfefferberg
 * Embeth Davidtz – Helen Hirsch
 * Mark Ivanir – Marcel Goldberg
 * Andrzej Seweryn – Julian Scherner
 * Adi Nitzan – Mila Pfefferberg
 * Michael Schneider – Juda Dresner
 * Miri Fabian – Chaja Dresner
 * Anna Mucha – Danka Dresner
 * Ezra Dagan – Rabbi Menasha Lewartow
 * Uri Avrahami – Chaim Nowak
 * Elina Löwensohn – Diana Reiter

About Schindler's List

 * Has Godard or any other director living or dead done more than Spielberg, with his Holocaust Project, to honor and preserve the memories of the survivors?"
 * Roger Ebert (October 18, 2002). "In Praise of Love". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved April 28, 2007.

 * I regard as kitsch any representation of the Holocaust that is incapable of understanding or unwilling to understand the organic connection between our own deformed mode of life and the very possibility of the Holocaust.
 * Imre Kertesz "Holocaust Reflections". English.illinois.edu. Retrieved January 31, 2011.

 * Rernicious in its impact and influence. Very sentimental
 * Think that's about the Holocaust? That was about success, wasn't it? The Holocaust is about 6 million people who get killed. Schindler's List is about 600 who don't.
 * Goldman, A.J. (August 25, 2005). "Stanley Kubrick's Unrealized Vision". Jewish Journal (Tribe Media Corp). Retrieved October 22, 2013.
 * Claude Lanzmann The New York Times, December 6, 2010 Maker of 'Shoah' Stresses Its Lasting Value

 * Steven's gift to his mother, to his people, and in a sense to himself. Now he is a full human being.
 * Albert L. Lewis McBride, Joseph (1997). Steven Spielberg: A Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-81167-7.

 * This looks and feels like nothing Hollywood has ever made before.It is] "Spielberg's most intense and personal film to date.
 * Leonard Martin

 * The Holocaust was life without light. For me the symbol of life is color. That's why a film about the Holocaust has to be in black-and-white.
 * Steven Spielberg Palowski, Franciszek (1998) [1993]. The Making of Schindler's List: Behind the Scenes of an Epic Film. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Publishing Group. ISBN 1-55972-445-5.

 * I was hit in the face with my personal life. My upbringing. My Jewishness. The stories my grandparents told me about the Shoah. And Jewish life came pouring back into my heart. I cried all the time.
 * Steven Spielberg on his emotional state during the shoot McBride, Joseph (1997). Steven Spielberg: A Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-81167-7.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining the nation's sovereignty (self-governance) over its homeland to create a nation state.

 * CONTENT: A-D, E-H , I-L , M-P , Q-T , U-Z , See also , External links

A - D

 * Nationality is the great carrier of custom, of unreflecting habit and transmitted ideas that quench individuality. Conscience gives men force to resist and discard all this. Nationality has to be dealt with discriminatingly. It is not always liberal or constructive. It may be as dangerous when its boundary is outside that of the State as salutary when inside.
 * Lord Acton to William Ewart Gladstone (18 February 1888), quoted in J. N. Figgis and R. V. Laurence (eds.), Selections from the Correspondence of the First Lord Acton, Vol. I (1917), p. 182

 * Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.
 * Richard Aldington, The Colonel’s Daughter (1931) pt. 1, ch. 6

 * A great historian, Henry Steele Commager, said that in their lust for victory, neither traditional party is looking beyond November. And he went on to cite three issues that their platforms totally ignore: atomic warfare, Presidential Directive 59 notwithstanding. If we don't resolve that issue, all others become irrelevant. The issue of our natural resources; the right of posterity to inherit the earth, and what kind of earth will it be? The issue of nationalism - the recognition, he says, that every major problem confronting us is global, and cannot be solved by nationalism here or elsewhere - that is chauvinistic, that is parochial, that is as anachronistic as states' rights was in the days of Jefferson Davis.
 * John B. Anderson, 1980 Presidential Debate, (21 September 1980)

 * I propose the following definition of the nation: it is an imagined political community.
 * Anderson, Benedict. 1983. Imagined Communities, London: Verso. (Anderson 1983, 6); quoted in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. ch 13

 * What at this moment appears to prevent world unity... ? The answer is not hard to find and involves all nations: nationalism, capitalism, competition, blind stupid greed.The mass of men need arousing to see that good comes to all men alike and not just to a few privileged groups, and to learn also that "hatred ceases not by hatred but that hatred ceases by love"... practical goodwill, expressing itself through individuals, in communities and among nations.
 * Alice Bailey in Problems Of Humanity, Chapter VI - The Problem of International Unity  (1944)

 * Nationalism can take on some very ugly shapes. It looks as if as many crimes will be committed in its name as in the name of Religion or of Liberty. Indeed the source of the trouble is that Nationalists are apt to assume the garments of Religion. ... Love of one's country has been perverted into hatred of our neighbour's country by the preaching of lop-sided intellectuals, who themselves generally manage to escape the martyrdom they provide for others.
 * Stanley Baldwin, speech to the St. David's Day Banquet in Cardiff (1 March 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (1938), pp. 46-47

 * Nationality was valuable, in so far as it was a centripetal principle, in so far as it produced closer cooperation between members of the human race. It had the other side, and it must not be put on an absurd pedestal. It was not to any politician's or statesman's credit that he worked on the emotions of nationality to produce division; the proper use of the feeling of nationality was to produce union.
 * Arthur Balfour, speech to a meeting of the Congress of Philosophy at Oxford (27 September 1920), quoted in The Times (28 September 1920), p. 12

 * Nationalism does not provide a single way of talking about the world.
 * Michael Billig, Banal Nationalism (1995), pp. 86–87

 * If you don’t offer people a positive, uplifting nationalism, they will grab the nasty one. History and recent events have shown us that.
 * David Brooks, "The Central Challenge of the Age: Do Democrats know what unites us?" (5 November 2018), The New York Times

 * It is possible, in the interests of a false religion (such as Nationalism or Fascism) to avert one's eyes from the plain fact of human brotherhood; but the fact stubbornly remains, and we ignore it at our peril. We are all in the same boat, and we live in the shadow of a common doom.
 * Gerald Bullett, "Walt Whitman", in in Alfred Barratt Brown, Great Democrats, 1934 (reprinted by Spokesman Books, 2013).

 * The nationalism of a great nation inevitably degenerates into chauvinism and imperialism. The nationalism of a small nation is aimed primarily at the survival of the nation among others.
 * Vasil Bykau, Правілы жыцця Васіля Быкава // belsat.eu (in Belarusian)

 * Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
 * Stuart Chase, quoted in Pennsylvania Technology, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1990, p. 11

 * It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
 * Arthur C. Clarke, The Exploration of Space (1951), p. 187

 * The only possible foundation for a better social structure is the existing order, of which the contemporary system of nationalized states forms the foundation.
 * , The Promise of American Life (1909), p. 211

 * Positioning one's own identity in relation to the existence of the other is sickness. If you need an enemy to keep your identity alive, your identity is sick. Original: Kendi kimliğini ötekinin varlığına göre konumlandırmak hastalıktır. Kimliğini yaşatmak için sana bir düşman gerekiyorsa, senin kimliğin hastalıklıdır.
 * Hrant Dink, cited in Hrant: My brother on the knife edge, BirGün.

 * The Pale Blue Dot (photograph) is a silent rebuke to the fundamentalist, the nationalist, the militarist, the polluter-to anyone who does not put above all other things the protection of our little planet and the life that it sustains in the vast cold darkness.
 * Ann Druyan Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020)

E - H

 * Civic nationalism appeals to universal values, such as freedom and equality. It contrasts with “ethnic nationalism”, which is zero-sum, aggressive and nostalgic and which draws on race or history to set the nation apart. In its darkest hour in the first half of the 20th century ethnic nationalism led to war.
 * The Economist, "The New Nationalism" (November 2016)

 * I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.
 * Albert Einstein, in a letter to Alfred Kneser (7 June 1918); Doc. 560 in The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Vol. 8

 * I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult.
 * Albert Einstein, My Credo (1932)

 * Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
 * Albert Einstein, as quoted in }

 * Novelists...are aware that there are two important views as to the future of civilisation. One view believes that civilisation will continue to develop on the basis of private property, war and insane egotism expressed in the dictatorial nationalist state. The other view believes that humanity is fighting for a new series of values based on social property, which shall banish war, destroy nationalism, and replace it by the free growth of healthy nations co-operating with one another in a world civilisation.
 * Ralph Fox, The Novel and the People (1937), reprinted in Patrick Deane, History in Our Hands : A Critical Anthology of Writings on Literature, Culture and Politics from the 1930s, Leicester University Press, 1998

 * Nationalism is like cheap alcohol: First, it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, and then it kills you.
 * in Christine Spolar "Old divides plague Bosnia" on chicagotribune.com, May 14, 2007.

 * Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. "Patriotism" is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by "patriotism” I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one’s own nation, which is the concern with the nation’s spiritual as much as with its material welfare—never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.
 * Erich Fromm, in The Sane Society (1955)

 * If you think in terms of people divided up into countries, you won't follow me. The idea of countries is going by the boards. Young people are getting wonderfully uprooted and they're too strong to get sucked into this 'country' crap.
 * Buckminster Fuller, quoted in "The View from the Year 2000" by Barry Farrell in LIFE magazine (26 February 1971)

 * Modern history was born in the nineteenth century, conceived and developed as an instrument of European nationalism. As a tool of nationalist ideology, the history of Europe's nations was a great success, but it has turned our understanding of the past into a toxic waste dump, filled with the poison of ethnic nationalism, and the poison has seeped deep into popular consciousness.
 * Patrick J. Geary, The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe (2003), Princeton University Press, p. 15.

 * Nationalism . . . invents nations where they do not exist.
 * (Gellner 1983, 55). Gellner, Ernest. 1983. Nations and Nationalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.**in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. ch 13

 * The struggle for control over some or all of the territory of Palestine pits two nationalist movements against each other. In spite of their claims to uniqueness, all nationalist movements bear a remarkable resemblance to one another. Each constructs a historical narrative that traces the unbroken lineage of a group - a nation - over time. Each endows the site of the nation's birth or greatest cultural or political moment with special meaning. Each uses its purported 'special relationship' to some territory to justify its right to establish a sovereign state in that territory. This is where nationalism differs from mere nostalgia or collective memory: Whereas all sorts of religious or ethnic groups feel sentimental attachment to places nationalism converts sentiment into politics. The adherents of a nationalist movement demand exclusive sovereignty over the designated territory and, for their nation, membership in the global order of nation-states. When it comes to connecting history and geography to political rights, neither Zionism nor Palestinian nationalism is a slacker.
 * James L. Gelvin, The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War (2014), Cambridge University Press, pp. 5-6

 * The rifts between Shia and Sunni, Eastern Orthodox and Catholic, Israelis and Palestinians, Tibetans and Chinese, obviously have real political, theological, or economic substance behind them, but they are often reduced to symbolism. If you study the history of nationalism, it is often a story of symbols. What flag shall we fly? What icon shall we mount? What books will we revere — or burn?
 * Jonah Goldberg, "The Border Wall Is a Symbol of Our Symbolic Politics" (28 December 2018), National Review

 * Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. Let me illustrate. Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves nobler, better, grander, more intelligent than those living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others. The inhabitants of the other spots reason in like manner, of course, with the result that from early infancy the mind of the child is provided with blood-curdling stories about the Germans, the French, the Italians, Russians, etc. When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country against the attack or invasion of any foreigner. It is for that purpose that we are clamoring for a greater army and navy, more battleships and ammunition.
 * Emma Goldman, "What is Patriotism?" (1908)

 * The fact is that the world we live in was made by nationalism. Nationalism is the cultural framework of modernity. Modern consciousness is national consciousness. This means that we see reality through the lens of nationalism, or that reality is constructed by nationalism. This in turn means that everything that is modern—both good and bad—in politics, society, economy, personal relations, literature, science, and so on, is neither the result of an inevitably progressing civilization, nor an expression of an incorrigible human nature. All the ingredients of modernity are here because of nationalism.
 * , The World Nationalism Made

 * The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.
 * Sydney J. Harris, Strictly Personal (1953), "Purely Personal Prejudices"

 * [H]istorians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to the heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it. So my profession, which has always been mixed up in politics, becomes an essential component of nationalism.

 * The apparent universal ideological domination of nationalism today is a sort of optical illusion.
 * (Hobsbawn 1990, 78); Hobsbawn, E. J. 1990. Nations and Nationalism since 1780. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. **in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. ch 13

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 * Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." But let it be considered, that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self-interest.
 * Samuel Johnson, statement of 7 April 1775, as quoted in Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) by James Boswell, p. 253

 * Nationalism is a state of mind permeating the large majority of the people and claiming to permeate all its members; it recognises the nation-State as the ideal form of political organization and the nationality as the source of all creative cultural energy and economic well-being. The supreme loyalty of man is therefore due to his nationality, as his own life is supposedly rooted in and made possible by its welfare.
 * Hans Kohn, The Idea of Nationalism, Macmillan, 1961 (p.16). Also quoted in Andrew Vincent, Modern Political Ideologies, Wiley, 2009 (p.318).

 * Those who say that we want nationality, they are standing against Islam....We have no use for the nationalists. Moslems are useful for us. Islam is against nationality....
 * Imam Khomeini, [Mehregan Magazine, Volume 12, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring & Summer 2003, p 16.]

 * These issues that exist among people that we are Iranian and what we need to do for Iran are not correct; these issues are not correct. This issue, which is perhaps being discussed everywhere, regarding paying attention to nation and nationality is nonsense in Islam and is against Islam. One of the things that the designers of Imperialism and their agents have promoted is the idea of nation and nationality.
 * Imam Khomeini, [Mehregan Magazine, Volume 12, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring & Summer 2003, p 16.]

 * [W]e get today the immoral idea of making whole nations responsible for the misdeeds of their rulers, regardless of whether these had majority support or not. This collective judgment of moral acts is one of the great maladies of the democratic age.
 * Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Liberty or Equality (40th anniversary edition), 1993, p. 158

 * [Iqbal elaborated that nationalism came into conflict with Islam] only when it begins to play the role of a political concept and claims to be a principle of human solidarity demanding that Islam should recede to the background of a mere private opinion and cease to be a living factor in the national life. ... In majority countries, Islam accomodates nationalism, for there Islam and nationalism are practically identical, in minority countries it is justified in seeking self-determination as a cultural unit.
 * Muhammad Iqbal quoted in R. Hassan 1971, 146, in Iqbal Poet Philospher of Pakistan, also in    Jain, M. (2010). Parallel pathways: Essays on Hindu-Muslim relations, 1707-1857.

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 * Nationalists, to take one example of the imagined communities, like to claim that their nation has always existed back into that conveniently vague area, “the mists of time.” The Anglican Church claims that, in spite of the break with Rome during the Reformation, it is part of an unbroken progression from the early church. In reality, an examination of any group shows that its identity is a process, not a fixed thing. Groups define and redefine themselves over time and in response to internal developments, a religious awakening perhaps, or outside pressures. If you are oppressed and victimized, as gays have been and still are in many societies, that becomes part of how you see yourself. Sometimes that leads to an unseemly competition for victimhood. American blacks have watched resentfully as the commemoration of the Holocaust has taken an ever greater place in American consciousness. Was not slavery just as great a crime, some have asked?
 * Margaret MacMillan, The Uses and Abuses of History (2008)

 * Nationalism, like the ideas of Leo Tolstoi, is an attempt to stop the course of history. Everything leading to separation is the result of license: it smashes what is whole, breaks and pulverizes it into tiny fragments that can never be joined together again. The truth of this has become completely apparent in our century. We have been witness to the process of disintegration. What has it brought us, apart from material and spiritual impoverishment?
 * Nadezhda Mandelstam Hope Abandoned (1974) Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward

 * A great many people really care very little for their own compatriots, but they hate anything foreign.

 * Consider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors: a Nation not slow and dull, but of quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that humane capacity can soar to.
 * John Milton, Aeropagitica (1644)

 * Nationalism is about putting the (ethno-)nation above liberal-democratic and leftist values alike. Once one takes that step, one is not separated from other nationalists by anything irreducible.
 * Brian Reynolds Myers, "South Korea’s Nationalist-Left Front" (7 April 2019), Sthele Press

 * No one should be beaten. [Instead,] everything that bothers us should be carefully, but unyieldingly eliminated by means of deportation... A tooth without a root is considered dead. A nationalist is he who does not want the root ‘Russian’ to be deleted from the word ‘Russia.’ We have the right to be Russian in Russia and we will protect this right.
 * Alexei Navalny, as quoted in Putin crafts spectacle for re-election landslide, (18 March 2018), The Cambridge Globalist, about the orginal video Become nationalist! (17 October 2007)

 * Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
 * George Orwell, "Notes on Nationalism" (1945), Polemic

 * In societies such as ours, it is unusual for anyone describable as an intellectual to feel a very deep attachment to his own country. Public opinion — that is, the section of public opinion of which he as an intellectual is aware — will not allow him to do so. Most of the people surrounding him are sceptical and disaffected, and he may adopt the same attitude from imitativeness or sheer cowardice: in that case he will have abandoned the form of nationalism that lies nearest to hand without getting any closer to a genuinely internationalist outlook. He still feels the need for a Fatherland, and it is natural to look for one somewhere abroad. Having found it, he can wallow unrestrainedly in exactly those emotions from which he believes that he has emancipated himself. God, the King, the Empire, the Union Jack — all the overthrown idols can reappear under different names, and because they are not recognised for what they are they can be worshipped with a good conscience. Transferred nationalism, like the use of scapegoats, is a way of attaining salvation without altering one's conduct.
 * George Orwell, "Notes on Nationalism" (1945), Polemic

 * Nationalism was so perfectly suited to its double task, the domestication of workers and the despoliation of aliens, that it appealed to everyone - everyone, that is, who wielded or aspired to wield a portion of capital.
 * Fredy Perlman, "The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism" (1984)

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 * To avert national decay, then, the moral character must be guarded. The mighty heart of the nation must be kept sound, so that its pulses, when once roused, will, like the ocean in its strength, sweep all before it. So long as the moral tone is preserved, the sun of our glory will not set; there will come no national decay and death.
 * Frederick William Robertson, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 427.

 * [The newspapers] are talking of nationalism as if it were the property of an individual or as if it were confined to one group only. Nationalism is the property of all. Nobody can take possession of it just as a glittering word which attracts the hearts of stupid people.
 * Abd al-Karim Qasim (1959) The historical extempore speech at the Reserve Officers' College

 * Nationalism is a certain form of unity which grows out of historical experience. It is a sense of oneness that emerges from social groups trying to control their environment and to defend their gains against competing groups.
 * Walter Rodney,

 * I do not ask for overcentralization; but I do ask that we work in a spirit of broad and far-reaching nationalism when we work for what concerns our people as a whole. We are all Americans. Our common interests are as broad as the continent. I speak to you here in Kansas exactly as I would speak in New York or Georgia, for the most vital problems are those which affect us all alike.
 * Theodore Roosevelt, The New Nationalism speech

 * [W]hat is nationalism? And what nationalism is actually Western invention. Imperial China had no nationalism. Where do they get their ideas of nationalism? Well, they got their ideas of nationalism from the Japanese, which emerged as a national state in the 19. Well, where did the Japanese get their ideas about nationalism, which were then translated into Chinese? They got it from the Germans. So what they imported was a 19th-century version of social Darwinism in which race is of the fundamental basis of nationality and there are very – when you hear Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders talking about cultural pollution, when you talk about the natural affinity of all Chinese people wherever they are, you begin to worry that there is this submerged, and sometimes not even so, some racialist component.
 * Stephen Rosen, interview with Bill Kristol (2016), transcript

 * [N]ationalism also is the engine that generates the power which permits countries to be benevolent if they are so inclined. Not all countries are so inclined.
 * Stephen Rosen, interview with Bill Kristol (30 November 2018), transcript

 * Individuality is a far more important thing than nationality, and in any given man deserves a thousand-fold more consideration. And since you cannot speak of national character without referring to large numbers of people, it is impossible to be both loud in your praises and honest. National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. If we become disgusted with one, we praise another, until we get disgusted with this one too. Every nation mocks at other nations, and they are all right.
 * Arthur Schopenhauer, ["The Wisdom of Life-IV;Position:Section 2- Pride". (1851).Translated by T. Bailey Saunders. (pg.35 in "The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims", Digireads.com Publishing, 2008)].

 * National loyalty involves a love of home and a preparedness to defend it; nationalism is a belligerent ideology, which uses national symbols in order to conscript the people to war.
 * Roger Scruton, England and the Need for Nations (2006)

 * Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people that you never met. And all of a sudden you take pride in accomplishments you had no part in whatsoever, and you brag about- and the Americans'll go "Fuck the French! Fuck the French, if we hadn't had saved their ass in two World Wars, they'd be speakin' German right now!" And you go, "Oh, was that us?" Was that me and you, Tommy, we saved the French? Jesus! I know I blacked out a little bit after that fourth shot of Jägermeister last night, but I don't remember... I know we went through the Wendy's drive-thru to get one of them "Freschetta" sandwiches that looked so alluring on the commercial, but then we ordered it and realized we had no money, and we had to ditch out before the second window, and those douchebags in line behind us with the bass music probably got our order and we laughed about that. But I don't remember savin' the French. At all! I went through the last ten calls on my cell phone and there's nothin' incoming or outgoing to the French, lookin' for muscle on a project! I checked my pants, there's no mud stains on the knees from where we were garroting Krauts in the trenches at Verdun. I think "we" didn't do anything but watch sports bloopers while we got hammered. I think "we" should shut the fuck up!
 * Doug Stanhope, No Refunds

 * As conscious beings advance in mental growth, they come to recognise that this ideal must embrace not merely their own kin or neighbours, not only their tribe or nation, not only the whole race or species, but all conscious beings whatever, no matter how foreign.
 * Olaf Stapledon, Philosophy and living

 * Perhaps the central question in our understanding of nationalism is the role of the past in the creation of the present. … For nationalists themselves, the role of the past is clear and unproblematic. The nation was always there, indeed it is part of the natural order, even when it was submerged in the hearts of its members.
 * Anthony D. Smith (1989, p. 18) As cited in: Öktem, Kerem. "Creating the Turk’s Homeland: Modernization, Nationalism and Geography in Southeast Turkey in the late 19 th and 20 th Centuries." Socrates Kokkalis Graduate Workshop. The City: Urban Culture, Architecture and Society. 2003.

 * The idea of the Nation is one of the most powerful anaesthetics that Man has invented. Under the influence of its fumes the whole people can carry out its systematic programme of the most virulent self-seeking without being in the least aware of its moral perversion,-in fact feeling dangerously resentful if it is pointed out.
 * Rabindranath Tagore. "Nationalism in the West", 1917. Reprinted in Rabindranath Tagore and Mohit K. Ray, Essays (2007, p. 465). Also cited in Parmanand Parashar, Nationalism: Its Theory and Principles in India (1996, p. 212), and Himani Bannerji, Demography and Democracy: Essays on Nationalism, Gender and Ideology.  (2011, p.179).

 * The rebellion against membership of the European Union, culminating in the British ‘Brexit’ referendum on 23 June 2016, represents a new highwater mark for anxious and distrustful popular sentiment. A little more than seventy years after the war against extreme nationalism appeared won, a small but clear majority of those who chose to vote essentially reaffirmed the near-absolute primacy of nationalism over internationalism, reversing the political direction in which the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe had appeared to be travelling since 1945. In the United States, a phrase with dubious historical pedigree, ‘America First’, has become current once more. What we are living through is not, of course, precisely a repeat of the 1930s. However, the study of the 1930s reminds us of the dangers of crass inequality, of international ‘beggar-my-neighbour’ competition, of the capacity of marginalized social groups for extreme violence based on the scapegoating of minorities, and of the many other consequences that flow from irresponsible and often sadly misjudged notions of national self-interest.
 * Frederick Taylor, 1939: A People's History (2020)

 * The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.
 * William Mackergo Taylor, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 427.

 * Nationalism seeks legitimacy from the past and history therefore becomes a sensitive subject.
 * Romila Thapar, Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300 (2003), Penguin Books, p. 19.

 * What are the phenomena of nationalism? Here are some of them: 1) National egoism, from which many other negative traits of nationalism are derived, as for example — a desire for foreign conquest, a desire to oppress other nations, a desire to impose economic exploitation upon other nations, and so on; 2) national-chauvinism which is also a source of many other negative traits of nationalism, as for example national hatred, the disparagement of other nations, the disparagement of their history, culture, and scientific activities and scientific achievements, and so on, the glorification of developments in their own history that were negative and which from our Marxist point of view are considered negative.
 * Tito, Concerning the National Question and Social Patriotism Speech held at the Slovene Academy of Arts and Sciences, November 26, 1948, Ljubljana

 * It must never be forgotten that religion gave birth to Anglo-American society. In the United States, religion is therefore commingled with all the habits of the nation and all the feelings of patriotism; whence it derives a peculiar force.
 * Alexis de Tocqueville, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 427

 * If the great questions of the beginning of this century were mainly political, those which will convulse the world at its close will be social.
 * Alexis de Tocqueville, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 427

 * Patriotism always exists in the greatest degree in rude nations, and in an early period of society.
 * Alexander Fraser Tytler, Universal History. Vol. 1, Jordan and Wiley, 1847, p. 221

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 * So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbours. The citizen of the universe would the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.
 * Voltaire, ["Fatherland" in "Miracles and Idolatry" (Selections from the Dictionnaire Philosophique (1764),(pg. 56), Penguin Books, 2005.]

 * [N]othing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.
 * George Washington, farewell address (1796)

 * Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert those pillars of human happiness, those firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
 * George Washington, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 426.

 * I believe in nationality; not in terms of race or of divine commissions for world conquest, but simply this: mankind inevitably organizes itself into communities according to its geographical distribution; these communities by sharing a common history develop common characteristics and inspire a local loyalty; the individual family develops most happily and fully when it accepts these local limits. I do not think that British prosperity must necessarily be inimical to anyone else, but if, on occasions, it is, I want Britain to prosper and not her rivals.
 * Evelyn Waugh, Robbery Under Law:The Mexican Object-Lesson (1939), reprinted in Patrick Deane, History in Our Hands : A Critical Anthology of Writings on Literature, Culture and Politics from the 1930s, Leicester University Press, 1998
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 * Arbeiter horch, sie ziehn ins Feld, Und schreien für Nation und Rasse. Das ist der Krieg der Herrscher der Welt Gegen die Arbeiterklasse.
 * Workers, hearken, they are going to war And they yell "For nation and race!" This war is the rulers of the world's Against the working class!
 * Erich Weinert, Der heimliche Aufmarsch (1929)

 * For one cannot serve the national spirit merely by getting a lump in the throat whenever one catches sight of the Union Jack, or by seeing red when a newspaper reports that some foreign power has acted aggressively towards England. These reactions bear the same relation to true love of country that a chance encounter between a man and a woman who meet in the street bears to a happy marriage.
 * Rebecca West, "The Necessity and Grandeur of the International Ideal" (1935), reprinted in Patrick Deane, History in Our Hands : A Critical Anthology of Writings on Literature, Culture and Politics from the 1930s, Leicester University Press, 1998.

 * No advanced thought, no mystical philosophy, no glittering abstractions, no swelling phrases about freedom, not even science with its marvelous inventions and discoveries, can help us much in sustaining this republic; still less can godless theories of creation, or any infidel attempt to rule out the Redeemer from His rightful supremacy in our hearts, afford any hope of security. That way lies despair.
 * Robert Charles Winthrop, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 425.

 * I am a Muslim minister. The same as they are Christian ministers, I'm a Muslim minister. And I don't believe in fighting today on any one front, but on all fronts. In fact, I'm a Black Nationalist freedom fighter. Islam is my religion but I believe my religion is my personal business. It governs my personal life, my personal morals. And my religious philosophy is personal between me and the God in whom I believe, just as the religious philosophy of these others is between them and the God in whom they believe. And this is best this way. Were we to come out here discussing religion, we'd have too many differences from the out start and we could never get together. So today, though Islam is my religious philosophy, my political, economic and social philosophy is black nationalism. You and I – As I say, if we bring up religion, we'll have differences, we'll have arguments, and we'll never be able to get together. But if we keep our religion at home, keep our religion in the closet, keep our religion between ourselves and our God, but when we come out here we have a fight that's common to all of us against a enemy who is common to all of us.
 * Malcolm X, "The Ballot or the Bullet," 1965

 * The political philosophy of black nationalism only means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community. The time when white people can come in our community and get us to vote for them so that they can be our political leaders and tell us what to do and what not to do is long gone. By the same token, the time when that same white man, knowing that your eyes are too far open, can send another Negro in the community, and get you and me to support him, so that he can use him to lead us astray, those days are long gone too. The political philosophy of black nationalism only means that if you and I are going to live in a black community – and that's where we're going to live, 'cause as soon as you move into one of their….soon as you move out of the black community into their community, it's mixed for a period of time, but they're gone and you're right there all by yourself again.
 * Malcolm X, "The Ballot or the Bullet," 1965

 * As for the point of view of doctrine and Islam, the Muslim umma and its mujahid vanguard do not make alliances and hold animosities on the basis of tribalism and nationalism, nor to help the Arabs against the Persians, or the Kurds against the Arabs, or the Amazighs against the Arabs. Rather, Islam commands us to fight for Allah's word to be supreme. We ally ourselves to the helpers of Islam, even if they be Afghans, Persians, Turks or Kurds, and we are hostile to its enemies who collude with the Crusaders and Jews, even if they are pure-blooded Hashemite, Qurayshite Arabs…I ask my Muslim bothers in general and the callers and the mujahideen and their media organizations in particular to highlight the concept of Islamic brotherhood and disown all partisanship, loyalties, and animosities based on nationalism, and I ask them not to allow the wrongdoing of a faction or entity to motivate to speak evil of that party's entire people or race.
 * Shaykh Ayman Zawahiri, "Lessons, Examples, and Great Events in the Year 1427," February 13, 2007,, PDF Version

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