Patriotism and gangsterism
I have been searching for a similar quote like this one…
Nationalism couldn’t do it, not for me. I had this teacher once who liked to wear a tartan tie; he marked me down for saying that patriotism was just another kind of gangsterism. “And what gang do you belong to?” he asked.
“The cinema-goers,” I said. — Andrew O’Hagan’s film choices
Well, not the cinema-goers part, but “patriotism was just another kind of gangsterism”. Who was the one who first said it? So wise.