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Albert Einstein
“Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.”
Albert Einstein

Arundhati Roy
“Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.”
Arundhati Roy, War Talk

Nelson Mandela
“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”
Nelson Mandela

Oscar Wilde
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious”
Oscar Wilde

Arthur Schopenhauer
“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

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