“United States: …. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.”
"United States"
The Doubter's Companion (1994)
“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.”
When asked by Viereck if he considered himself to be a German or a Jew. A version with slightly different wording is quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe http://books.google.com/books?id=dJMpQagbz_gC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA386#v=onepage&q&f=false by Walter Isaacson (2007), p. 386
1920s, Viereck interview (1929)
Variant: Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Context: It is quite possible to be both. I look upon myself as a man. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
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Benito Mussolini
(1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…
As quoted by Mussolini in 2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt by James A. Haught (1966) p. 256. From a speech he made in Lausanne, July 1904.
1900s
“Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.”
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.”
"On Being in Love".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
Context: Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. Also like the measles, we take it only once... No, we never sicken with love twice. Cupid spends no second arrow on the same heart.
“Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.”
George Gordon Byron
(1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
“Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body.”
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
(1881–1938) Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey
As quoted by Paul Wolfowitz in an address to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Washington, D.C. (13 March 2002) http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/speech.aspx?speechid=198
Context: Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.