Dave Smith

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

“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

“Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.”
― Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
― Howard Zinn