Gustave Le Bon

Patriotism is the most powerful manifestation of the soul of a race. It represents a collective instinct for preservation that, in the case of national peril, is immediately replaced by the instinct for self-preservation.

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Charles de Gaulle

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of beliefs, of opinions, of work and of leisure.

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Charles de Gaulle

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

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Albert Einstein

Nationalism is a childhood disease. It's the measles of humanity.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

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