Quotes About Nationalism

Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.

I've always wanted to represent my country. It's an honour to do so, and whenever I get that chance, I'll keep doing it.

September 11 either made me love this country or it made me realize how much I already did. I think it's the latter. Seeing "Fahrenheit 9/11" made me think deeply about love of country - how it molds us, drives and emboldens us and how it can sometimes make us so angry, we want to shout out to the world: 'No, this is wrong.'

I think it's just in human nature: if you've got two guys fighting, and you don't really know them, you're going to root for the guy who comes from your country.

If the world sees that we can defend our borders... then no one will try to come to Hungary illegally.

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

You may have the universe if I may have Italy

we no longer live in a nation, but in a Homeland.

We have been obtuse toward nationalism and identity issues in the Middle East and have lumped it all into the basket of "Islam.

Britain's socialists might not like imperialism, but they were quite fond of the empire.

The Germans have national amnesia where the war is concerned.

The radically countercultural and revolutionary movement that Jesus birthed has, in our country (as in every other "Christian" country), been largely reduced to little more than a preservation society for a national civil religion.

Finally, one would question the absurd idea that anyone would be proud to belong to a race that could create a hellish nightmare like "Gettysburg.

I'm from the famous nation of Fuck You,' she retorted. 'Would you like to hear our national anthem?

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.

I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a nationalistic one.

The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war.

A lot of my father's family in Canada volunteered in the First World War because they saw it as a war that was defending the mother country.

The Kurds had always had a bad time. They were oppressed by the Ottoman empire. Then, at the end of the First World War, they were promised a homeland, but the new Turkish state refused to give them any land, while the British went and created the new state of Iraq and sent aircraft to bomb the Kurds there into submission.

In the case of the second world war the distorting factor is not poetry but our seemingly insatiable need to view the war through the prism of national mythology.

After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.

Ukippers are the kinds of fools who haven't noticed they're sleep-walking towards fascism. Many UKIP candidates are of the age when their parents fought in the Second World War.

The E.U. is an organization that was created after the Second World War for calming down the nationalism of member states, and it did so very successfully.