On Nationalism and Patriotism

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
-- George Bernard Shaw, author

"The love of one's country

is a splendid thing.

But why should love

stop at the border?"
--Pablo Casals, musician

"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first;

nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."
--Charles de Gaulle, French leader

"Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use 

first to shrink-wrap people's brains

and then as ceremonial shrouds 

to bury the dead."
--Arundhati Roy, author

"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind".
-- Albert Einstein, scientist

"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
--Bertrand Russell, philosopher

"Patriotism is loving your country always

and your government when it deserves it."
--Mark Twain, author

“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, author