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"The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it." - Agate, James write comments | rate this quote "Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for larger spurs and brighter beaks. I fear that nationalism is one of England's many spurious gifts to the world." - Aldington, Richard write comments | rate this quote "The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are." - Bacon, Francis write comments | rate this quote "There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make." - Barrie, Sir James M. write comments | rate this quote "Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery." - John Paul II write comments | rate this quote "The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another." - Johnson, Samuel write comments | rate this quote "The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England." - Johnson, Samuel write comments | rate this quote "Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young." - Johnson, Samuel write comments | rate this quote "Jones, Franklin P." - Jones, Franklin P. write comments | rate this quote "All the nationalists are wasms -- except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism." - Lukacs, John write comments | rate this quote "If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts." - Maugham, W. Somerset write comments | rate this quote "Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are the bastards of Humanity. Soldiers without a banner, Israelites among the nations, you will find neither faith nor protection; none will be sureties for you. Do not beguile yourselves with the hope of emancipation from unjust social conditions if you do not first conquer a Country for yourselves." - Mazzini, Giuseppe write comments | rate this quote "We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go." - Meir, Golda write comments | rate this quote "An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards." - O'Malley, Austin write comments | rate this quote "Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception." - Orwell, George write comments | rate this quote "No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country, Thus far shalt thou go and no further." - Parnell, Charles Stewart write comments | rate this quote "Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one." - Pope John XXIII write comments | rate this quote "The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive." - Pritchett, V. S. write comments | rate this quote "The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch." - Proverb write comments | rate this quote "The French work to live, but the Swiss live to work." - Proverb, French write comments | rate this quote

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