Quotes About Nationalism

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult...Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

As a form of neurosis, race-conscious nationalism almost always ignores logic and knowledge: In the East European civil wars between 1918 and 1920 Jews were slaughtered for a variety of contradictory reasons, as capitalists and as communists, as friends of the Ukrainians, as Polonophiles, as pro-German-just as it suited the circumstances.

There are signs that the Japanese themselves consider their excellent cuisine as an essential part of what it means to be Japanese.

Why would a young man like you be interested in history?" "So I can avoid repeating it." "Then stay away from men who talk about the fatherland," he said. "That's my advice.

By the end of 1946 Philby had achieved something no other spy could boast: the award of three separate medals from nationalist Spain, the communist Soviet Union, and Britain.

Hating Britain is a fundamental part of being British

The French Revolution, then, led not only to the rise of the nation-state and nationalism more broadly, it also opened the door to total war—the end of the distinction between civilian and military, and the willingness to weaponize an entire population toward the ends of governments.

Only the left sees terms like flag-waver, jingoist, and super-patriot as insults. Patriotism, in their view, is bad. They don't believe this, because they're globalists.

Fascism is not an article for export.

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Fascism is a religious concept.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization!

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

Gabriel, te gusta que te manden los franceses y que con su lengua que no entiendes, te digan "haz esto, haz lo otro, y que entren en tu casa y que te hagan ser soldado de Napoleón, y que España no sea España, vamos al decir, que nosotros no seamos como nos da la gana de ser sino como el Emperador quiera que seamos?

It is one thing to defend one's fatherland, another to attack people who themselves have a fatherland to defend. The spirit of conquest seeks to confuse these two ideas. Some governments, when they send their armies from one pole to the other, still talk about the defence of their hearths; one would think they call all the places to which they have set fire their hearths.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.

The foundation of England's greatness is that Englishmen hate to look fools.

Donald Trump is a greater threat to the United States than terrorism.

Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

We can't turn Italy into a refugee camp.

The United States has already experienced the danger of flawed refugee vetting as well as the potential for refugees to be radicalized once they are here. In 2011, two Iraqi refugees were arrested in Kentucky for conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals abroad in support of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the predecessor to ISIL.