Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.

-Aldington, Richard pseudonym of  Edward Godfree
The Colonel's Daughter, pt.1, ch.6.

Why should Scottish and Welsh nationalism be seen as a noble thing, when in England it is seen as something dirty?

-Baker (of Dorking), Kenneth Baker, Baron
  In the Sunday  Times,'Talking Heads', 6  Jan.

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.

-Baldwin (of Bewdley), Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl
  Speech, Dec.

Nationalism, and its chum, patriotism, encourage unedifying hyperbole.

-Dunn, Douglas Eaglesham
  'Language and Liberty', introduction to the Faber Book of Twentieth Century Scottish Poetry.

   Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism, and from it, extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly, middle-class parties their nationalism.Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as crystal, the synthesis öGerman National Socialism.

-Goering, HermannWilhelm
  Speech, Berlin, 9  Apr.

Current nationalism is merely the affirmation of the right of colonial elites to repeat historyand follow the road travelled by the rich toward the universal consumption of internationally marketed packages, a road which can ultimately lead only to universal pollution and universal frustration.

-Illich, Ivan
  Celebration of  Awareness, ch.12.

Canadian nationalism was systematically encouraged and exploited by American capital.Canada moved from colony to nation to colony.

-Innis, Harold Adams
  'Great Britain, the United States and Canada', collected in Mary Quayle Innis (ed) Essays in Canadian Economic History (1956).

No modern Irish writer, even of the stature of Yeats or Joyce, is completely free from traces of nationalism.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  'Notes on Nationalism'.

Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.War springs from the love and loyalty that should be offered to God being applied to some God substituteöoneofthemostdangerousbeing nationalism.

-Runcie, Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron
  Sermon atThanksgiving Service after the FalklandsWar, St Paul's Cathedral, 26 Jul.

It is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children of immigrants† It is, however, unfortunate that a large part of this process should be effected by means of a somewhat blatant nationalism.

-Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl
  In Praise of Idleness,'Modern Homogeneity'.