Quotes About Nationalism

Love your country, but never trust its government.

What is unfortunate, however, is that in the case of China, teaching patriotism is also teaching anti-Japanese sentiment.

I paid a visit to Yasukuni Shrine to pray for the souls of those who had fought for the country and made ultimate sacrifices. I have made a pledge never to wage war again, that we must build a world that is free from the sufferings of the devastation of war.

In war-time the word patriotism means suppression of truth.

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Conserving national resources was a sensible wish; it became a prescient necessity when the US entered the war six years later. But the desire to make the country great again may have appeared a tired political slogan even then. The belief of a better past is clearly a compelling one, but whether the past was better in the days of Taylor and Roosevelt in 1911 or in the mind of Donald Trump in 2016 is difficult to say.

Clubs are all about winning. National teams, however, have an additional function: to incarnate the nation.

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

Herzl concluded that Jews could never be safe without their own homeland. At first, this half-pragmatist, half-utopian dreamed of a Germanic aristocratic republic, a Jewish Venice ruled by a senate with a Rothschild as princely doge and himself as chancellor. His vision was secular: the high priests "will wear impressive robes"; the Herzl army would boast cuirassiers with silver breastplates; his modern Jewish citizens would play cricket and tennis in a modern Jerusalem.

The autocracy was legitimized by its ever-expanding multi-faith, multi-ethnic empire, yet the later emperors regarded themselves as the leaders first of the Russian nation but then of the entire Slavic community. The more they embraced Russian nationalism, the more they excluded (and often persecuted) their huge non-Russian populations,

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Remember our war hysteria, when we called sauerkraut 'Liberty cabbage' and somebody actually proposed calling German measles 'Liberty measles'?

Then the idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.

Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land, God Bless the U.S.A.

There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty. - Fitz

What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing.

England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.

The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.

Next to of course god America i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh

A lot of liberals don't believe in American exceptionalism, but it doesn't mean they don't love America.