Quotes About Nationalism

Nationalism should not be confused with civic values, public spirit, social responsibility, or cultural pride.

Excluding 9/11 and Oklahoma, about twice as many Americans have been killed since 1990 by right-wing extremists as by Islamist terror groups.

We see the clash between nationalism and humanism in morbid patriotic slogans like "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" (Sweet and right it is to die for your country) and "Happy those who with a glowing faith in one embrace clasped death and victory.

We see the clash between nationalism and humanism in morbid patriotic slogans like "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" (Sweet and right it is to die for your country) and "Happy those who with a glowing faith in one embrace clasped death and victory."4 Even John F. Kennedy's less gruesome "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country" makes the tension clear.

authoritarian populism.

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers... of other countries.

You can't say you love your country and hate your government.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

People say that if you don't love America, then get the hell out. Well, I love America.

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

I believe in this country [the USA], I love this country, I believe in the idea of this country, and this country is an idea.

Always love your country - but never trust your government!

I love poetry and my country above all else in the world.

Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers.

I love America. It's Americans I can't stand.

Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?

As I think of the many myths, there is one that is very harmful, and that is the myth of countries. I mean, why should I think of myself as being an Argentine, and not a Chilean, and not an Uruguayan. I don't know really. All of those myths that we impose on ourselves -- and they make for hatred, for war, for enmity -- are very harmful. Well, I suppose in the long run, governments and countries will die out and we'll be just, well, cosmopolitans.

y el buen gobernante en América no es el que sabe cómo se gobierna el alemán o el francés, sino el que sabe con qué elementos está hecho su país

El amor, madre, a la patria no es el amor ridículo a la tierra, ni a la yerba que pisan nuestras plantas; Es el odio invencible a quien la oprime, es el rencor eterno a quien la ataca

Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.

Kapag may mga uban na po akong tulad ng sa inyo at ginugunita ang nakaraan at makita kong gumawa ako alang-alang sa sarili lamang, hindi ginhawa ang magagawa't nararapat gawin ukol sa bayang nagbigay sa akin ng lahat, ukol sa mga mamamayang tumutulong sa aking mabuhay, kapag nagkagayon po, magiging tinik sa akin ang bawat uban, at sa halip na ikaliwalhati ko'y dapat kong ikahiya.