Quotes About Internationalism

#1. The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the U.N.

Charles Krauthammer

#2. The most visible and often tragic sacrifice of proletarian socialism - not to mention internationalism - on the altar of nationalism, of course, has been by the states that proclaim themselves to be, or to aspire to become, socialist.

Andre Gunder Frank

#3. On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.

Christian Lous Lange

#4. We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.

Benito Mussolini

#5. If you look at the people on this train, you will see that they are dressed much alike. The train itself is a standard product, and by means of it we travel from town to town selling products which are messengers of internationalism.

Upton Sinclair

#6. In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

David Korten

#7. Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.

Christian Lous Lange

#8. Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism ... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#9. The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Earl Warren

#10. A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

Salvatore Quasimodo

#11. The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism.

Christian Lous Lange

#12. Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.

Christian Lous Lange

#13. It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

Christian Lous Lange

#14. Internationalism is the highest form of patriotism.

Christopher Hitchens

#15. Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history.

Charles Kennedy

#16. I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.

Christopher Hitchens

#17. Internationalism' is a way of reading, and not a demography of readership.

Amit Chaudhuri

#18. The decisive factor for the future of Europe - and before all things, for the 'restoration' of Europe - will be whether political thought and national feelings are influenced by the reality of internationalism.

Ellen Key

#19. Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.

Christian Lous Lange

#20. Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.

Christian Lous Lange

#21. I'm interested in internationalism. It's the new multiculturalism. How we deal with each other isn't sufficient any more. It's about time we examine how we interact with the rest of the world we live in.

David Henry Hwang

#22. Unilateralism is not internationalism, It is nationalist egotism gone mad.

Hugh Dalton

#23. Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

George Orwell

#24. Our internationalism is the driver of our nationalism.

Alex Salmond

#25. I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism; and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space.

David Blunkett

#26. Here is a bold embrace of internationalism. Let's join the rest of the world and go metric.

Lincoln Chafee

#27. Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society.

Christian Lous Lange

#28. Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive.

Henry Cabot Lodge

#29. Nationalism cannot flower if it does not grow in the garden of internationalism.

Sukarno

#30. The forces of internationalism, humanism and solidarity will have to be victorious, or soon there will be nothing left of the human race.

Andre Vltchek

#31. All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#32. I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.

Raquel Cepeda

#33. Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

Raquel Cepeda