{"quotes":[{"text":"The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["arrogance","arrogant","belief","bias","clan","country","estimate","estimated","estimation","family","funny","funny-but-true","humor","illogical","inferior","inferiority","irrational","logic","mystery","nation","nationalism","patriot","patriotic","patriotism","people","percent","percentage","pride","prideful","sarcasm","sarcastic","stat","statistic","statistics","stats","superior","superiority","true"],"id":1099,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"You are wrong,” says the man. His voice is low and resonant. The metal walls of the dome, all the knives and swords and spears, all seem to vibrate with each of his words. “Your rulers and their propaganda have sold you this watered-down conceit of war, of a warrior yoked to the whims of civilization. Yet for all their self-professed civility, your rulers will gladly spend a soldier’s life to better aid their posturing, to keep the cost of a crude good low. They will send the children of others off to die and only think upon it later to grandly and loudly memorialize them, lauding their great sacrifice. Civilization is but the adoption of this cowardly method of murder.","author":"Robert Jackson Bennett","tags":["civilization","conflict","imperialism","jingoism","militarism","murder","nationalism","patriotism","peace","propaganda","soldiering","soldiers","war","warrior"],"id":7843,"author_id":"Robert+Jackson+Bennett"},{"text":"As once-colonized nations seek to stand on their own, the countries once denuded of their past seek to assert their independent identities through the objects that tie them to it. The demand for restitution is a way to reclaim history, to assert a moral imperative over those who were once overlords. Those countries still in the shadow of more powerful empires seek to claim the symbols of antiquity and colonialism to burnish their own national mythmaking.","author":"Sharon Waxman","tags":["art","colonialism","museums","nationalism"],"id":9549,"author_id":"Sharon+Waxman"},{"text":"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["hunger","nationalism "],"id":10592,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"Our side has agents. Their side has spies.","author":"Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius","tags":["ideology","nationalism","perspective"],"id":10694,"author_id":"Vejas+Gabriel+Liulevicius"},{"text":"Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it's startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are 'We're number two!","author":"David Sedaris","tags":["humor","nationalism"],"id":11945,"author_id":"David+Sedaris"},{"text":"The twentieth century will have taught us that no doctrine in itself is necessarily a liberating force: all of them may be perverted or take a wrong turning; all have blood on their hands - communism, liberalism, nationalism, each of the great religions, and even secularism. Nobody has a monopoly on humane values.","author":"Amin Maalouf","tags":["communism","doctrine","liberalism","nationalism","religion","secularism"],"id":13385,"author_id":"Amin+Maalouf"},{"text":"The greatest sacrifice a man can make is the image of his soul.","author":"Janvier Chouteu-Chando","tags":["altruism","life","nationalism","patriotism","sacrifice"],"id":15419,"author_id":"Janvier+Chouteu-Chando"},{"text":"…The story of the Pledge of Allegiance and its National Socialist roots is a fascinating one. Dr. Rex Curry, a passionate libertarian, has made the issue his white whale.","author":"Jonah Goldberg","tags":["communism","libertarianism","nationalism","nazism","patriotism","pledge-of-allegiance","rex-curry","socialism"],"id":16531,"author_id":"Jonah+Goldberg"},{"text":"A banal mysticism, which is so banal that all the mysticism seems to have evaporated long ago, binds 'us' to the homeland - that special place which is more than a place, more than a geophysical area.","author":"Michael Billig","tags":["belief","mysticism","nationalism"],"id":17263,"author_id":"Michael+Billig"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":251,"pages":26,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}