“ Born in inquity and conceived in sin the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. Thorstein Veblen
“ The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies - and our sp… Harry W. Kroto
“ War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security. Gustave de Molinari
“ When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily of a personal choice, there lies a problem of distorted priorities. Moutasem Algharati
“ Arab nationalism in its traditional form was the way in which secular Arab Christians like Edward had found and kept a place for themselves, while simultaneously avoiding the charge of being too 'West… Christopher Hitchens
“ I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since ideology had anything to do with it. Not without cunning, Fat Man and Little Boy gradually mutated… Christopher Hitchens
“ But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either , which is infamous, or , which is imbecile. Patrick O'Brian
