“Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.”
“In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.”
“Bulls get rich, bears get rich, but pigs get slaughtered An Irishman is never at his best except when fighting.”
“Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.”
“Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.”
“All the nationalists are wasms -- except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.”
“No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country, ''Thus far shalt thou go and no further.''”
“Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for larger spurs and brighter beaks. I fear that nationalism is one of England's many spurious gifts to the world.”
“Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.”
“All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity -- their links with their dead and the unborn.”
“Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are the bastards of Humanity. Soldiers without a banner, Israelites among the nations, you will find neither faith nor protection; none will be sureties for you. Do not beguile yourselves with the hope of emancipation from unjust social conditions if you do not first conquer a Country for yourselves.”