Quotes About Nationalism

I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.

England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!

I love America, but I don't like it.

you know as well as I do that, individually, the English are very estimable and frequently generous, but that, once banded together to form a nation, they become unbearable.

An influx of immigrants also can contribute to the impression among white, working-class Americans that "their" country is being lost. But the right answer is to ameliorate the suffering of those left behind by providing retraining and social welfare benefits—not to shut down free trade and immigration and thereby impose heavy costs on the entire country.

Ha llegado el momento de dejar a un lado nuestras artificiales fronteras y unirse para hacer frente común ante la amenaza de la extinción. No es momento para hacer alarde de un nacionalismo estéril y obsoleto.

Every man has two counties--his own and America.

Everybody is always willing to throw someone else's country to the dogs.

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

Everyone knows that there are thirteen stripes to represent the original thirteen colonies and fifty stars, each representing one of the fifty states. But what you may not know is that red represents hardness and valor. White represents purity and innocence. And blue represents perseverance, vigilance, and justice.

Julian and his team of copy-writers had noted that the phrase 'Lest we forget' had so far been reserved for fallen soldiers. In minutes they had created a viral post accusing 'crazed trans multi-cultural zealots' of claiming that a dead transsexual was as much an English hero as the fighter pilots who had died during the Battle of Britain. Malika's algorithms then swiftly sent the message to the people most likely to be annoyed by it.

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders," Hermann Goering, the number two man in the Reich, once observed. "That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

Fight well, he said distantly, and remember you are Englishmen! Welshmen, someone intervened. Sir Roger visibly flinched at that and then, without another word, led his three men-at-arms from the church.

A Frenchman! Where did you pick up that expression? Are these Burgundians and Bretons and Picards and Gascons beginning to call themselves Frenchmen, just as our fellows are beginning to call themselves Englishmen? They actually talk of France and England as their countries. Theirs, if you please! What is to become of me and you if that way of thinking comes into fashion?

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

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons

The religious element in patriotism is reinforced by education, especially by a knowledge of the history and literature of one's own country, provided it is not accompanied by much knowledge of the history and literature of other countries.

The Western world, from the Reformation until 1848, was undergoing a continuous upheaval which may be called the Rights-of-Man Revolution. In 1848, this movement began to transform itself into nationalism east of the Rhine. In France, the association had existed since 1792, and in England from the beginning; in America, it had existed since 1776. The nationalist aspect of the movement has gradually overpowered the Rights-of-Man aspect, but this latter was at first the more important.

Nothing hurts so much the interest and reputation of America as to hear of their intestine quarrels.

Since the election of Shinzo Abe as the new Japanese prime minister, by reputation a fervent nationalist, relations between Japan and China have paradoxically improved a little.

We seem to be our own worst enemies. We should require critical U.S. infrastructure to remain in U.S. hands.

I am available to play in foreign leagues only when not required on national duty.

There is an attitude that Okinawans have about Japan itself. There is a resentment.