Quotes About Nationalism

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

And though it would never be publicly admitted, they must also be brainwashed to adopt his ideology. Pure by blood, stripped of free will, they were going to make Germany great again.

he merged his group with the small Imperial Fascist League to form the Union, which changed its name in 1936 to the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists. When the war began, its leaders were arrested and locked away.

I was taught not to distinguish between patriotism and nationalism; the word patriotism was an attempt to present the same ugly nationalist phenomenon of favoring your country over others; patriotism was a patriarchal swindle that made it easy to recruit soldiers to shed the blood of other peoples.

Y yo, que siempre he sentido una especie de callada simpatía por la gente que despotrica contra su propio país, me puse de inmediato a conversar con él.

Las literaturas nacionales como bien señaló Borges ( que tan bien señalaba tantas cosas), son un invento de los nacionalismos europeos del siglo XIX, pero hay que decir que sus imitadores latinoamericanos tuvieron mucho éxito: durante la primera mitad del siglo XX, éste fue el mayor esfuerzo de la novela escrita del otro lado del océano.

no es aquel que pasa su vida intentando probar que el suyo es un país mejor; es el que trata de hacer grande al país que lo recibe, porque ésta es la mejor forma de honrar al que lo vio nacer».

Las utopías, y sus héroes y santos, cualquiera sea su signo religioso, nacionalista o comunista, no son solo sueños inútiles pero destinados al fracaso, no son solo sueños que embellecen la vida. Son nefastas porque obstaculizan el avance posible del mundo y provocan sufrimientos a millones para nada.

I can write in Latin, French, and common English. I will not, however, write in German; it is a barbaric tongue that curdles the ink.

England is an empire, Germany is a nation, a race, France is a person.

At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.

The demands of war provided Hitler with just the excuse he was looking for to rid the regime not only of Jews, but also of Gypsies, socialists, the disabled and mentally ill, homosexuals, Poles, communists, or anyone else who did not fit the National Socialist ideal. The elimination of those deemed undesirable became an issue of prime importance.

The incessant marching and beating of drums, the sweeping searchlights, flaming torches, and thousands upon thousands of gigantic red and black swastikas flapping in the breeze, were all skillfully deployed to pay homage to the one supreme chieftain, the demi-god pre-ordained to lead his tribe out of darkness to its rightful place in the sun.

As Americans gained a new belief in their manifest destiny around the globe, Hawaiians lost their country, the first sovereign nation to become a casualty of America's imperial outreach.

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

I am proud of the fact that, despite all the disparities that do come up often in our country, we are still Indians, and I am proud of that.

People should not feel that they are not Indians because they don't understand Hindi.

I was born in Indonesia and will die in Indonesia.

History will tell you that borders are not inevitable, they hardly existed at the end of the 19th century.

The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics.

From the very beginning, Americans have exhibited a taste for expansion, an appetite for empire. One of the fundamental reasons for this is very clear. Like every other western empire that has ever existed, Americans may claim to have inherited the mantle of ancient Rome.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

I found that Scottishness and Englishness are actually strong, instinctive things, whatever the historical reasons. Even the accent changes - just two inches across the border.

The French no longer respect their language, because they no longer love themselves, and, no longer loving themselves, they no longer love what was the instrument of their glory - their language.