Patriotism and Nationalism Values

To love our country is part of our commonsense. Politicians applaud that love,and promote it.

Education, the scholar’s spelling-books and the historic data divulge the values and the examples of patriotism. Citizens feel it as good and desirable. There are nationalistic slivers in the common citizen.

We may say: it’s part of human nature. Nationalism is an extension of the love to family, to clan, to tribe, to ourselves. There are blood vows uniting patriots to their flag. The Motherland is formed by our equals, by those who speak the same language and share many common values, tastes, interests, and contribute to a common pool.

It’s natural, then. But not all of which is natural is good (hate is also natural)…

Obviously we have the legitimacy of linking our country. It’s not that is at stake. What’s really at stake is to be a citizen of a country without being even more a citizen of the world. It is to have pride and vanity, it’s to think that the truth, the good, the reason and the most brilliant history is associated with the country where we were born, and that only our fellow-citizens deserve our solidarity. Please think to come back home to serve the nation.

In this view, nationalism is ridiculous and dangerous and is the cause of many wars and evils. And that may justify the words of Albert Einstein and Bernard Shaw: <> (Einstein), <> (Shaw).

Patriotism and Nationalism

What wisdom is yours if you don’t know that motherland is nobler’ more precious, more respectable and more sacred than a mother or a father, or all our ancestors.

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

By blood and origin I am Mauritian. I am a catholic nun. As to my calling I belong to the whole world.

You will never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

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.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

The only and true state is the whole world। Do not close yourself in states and nations, separated from each other by their laws; instead, consider yourself and all men as natural citizens of the world; life and world should be one, as a bunch united by the law of common good.