Quotes About Nationalism

I think when I say my county, it is always India.

I cannot live anywhere else except India.

The good thing about India is that they believe something great about themselves.

I am an Indian to the core.

Every man, by consulting his own heart, may easily know whether he is or is not a patriot. But it is not so easy for the by-standers.

He tolerated his fellow Englishmen, but the Welsh were cabbage-farting dwarves, the Scots were scabby arse-suckers, and the French were shriveled turds.

He could not bear to look up and see the flutter of Union Jacks, and now the red and white cross of the Ulster flag with its red hand.

The rise to power of a right-wing lunatic in a free election in Germany.

Meanwhile Adolf Hitler, the only right-wing nationalist with a mass following, was publicly promising full employment and prosperity.

In The Reason for Democracy, published after his death in 1976, Kalman Silvert of New York University provided another pungent description of false patriots: "People who wrap themselves in the flag and proclaim the sanctity of the nation are usually racists, contemptuous of the poor and dedicated to keeping the community of 'ins' small and pure of blood, spirit and mind.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

India's post-independence leadership eschewed parochial nationalism in favor of civic nationalism where the rights and privileges of being Indian were conceived as arising not from some pre-existent modes of belonging—religion, race, or ethnicity—but instead from participation in a collective political endeavor.

Donald Trump talks about America first. He's made America alone.

A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

It ensured that I'd never think that patriotism and dissent were opposites.

Don't think 'I can't write an anthem'—think 'The United States of America made it two centuries with a terrible anthem that no one can sing. I bet I can do better than that.

All free men, wherever they live, are citizens of Berlin," said the president. "And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words, 'Ich bin ein Berliner.

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?

My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties.

If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.

Even the building of a second British empire in the 19th century never fully healed the wound of losing America, and the end of Britain's imperial prestige after the second world war has cut deeper.

At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a Constitution, something far more containable and understandable. I don't exactly know what it is, but at these times I feel completely woven into it.

When I was young, I overheard a Brit say Canada wasn't a real country because it doesn't have any poets. Even then, I kind of knew that was wrong, but I still thought, 'Wow, here's my chance to do something, to be of service to my country.'