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Quotes About Nationalism

Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago.
~ Meir Kahane
There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition.
~ Toomas Hendrik Ilves
The Hindu nationalists see a religion near perfection save for the tampering of Muslims and Christians. So they fall upon these groups, rather than try to reform their own practices by drawing on India's sophisticated philosophical traditions.
~ Karan Mahajan
The tragedy of India is that the Mahatma, who has numerous streets named after him and has had his statues put up everywhere, who's there in our school books and on our currency, who is used by everyone to hardsell his political ideology, is not emulated in India.
~ Mahesh Bhatt
I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.
~ Douglas Hyde
As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.
~ Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
This Right vs Left fault line has been drawn through all of our nations. In India too, your political choice has come to define all of you. And if you fail the ideological purity test of one or the other side, you are immediately branded a traitor.
~ Barkha Dutt
I am proud to be Chinese, and I do not tolerate any traitor.
~ Alex Chiu
I've been called a traitor a few times in my life by some of my countrymen.
~ Amos Oz
I have never been a traitor. I am not an informer; I never betrayed my nation.
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Castro branded Rigondeaux a 'traitor' and 'Judas' to the Cuban people.
~ Brin-Jonathan Butler
If you want someone to call you a traitor or accuse you of hating Britain, try suggesting that Britain is a normal nation or that our history is remarkable but not exceptional.
~ David Olusoga
The Trump vision, in fact, is an America unbound by a half-century of trade deals, free to pursue a nationalistic approach in which success is measured not by the quality of its alliances but the economic return on its transactions.
~ David E. Sanger
'Viceroy' is the first British film about the Raj and the transfer of power from Britain to India made by a British Indian director. It is a British film made from an Indian perspective.
~ Gurinder Chadha
Everything bad about France was transferred to Quebec.
~ Jacques Villeneuve
Just watch the interlopers from all over the world come and install themselves in our home. They want to transform France into a giant squat.
~ Marine Le Pen
I want to lead the Liberal Democrats so that we can build a liberal movement to stand up to those nationalist forces and stop Brexit, then transform our broken economy so that it is focused on the long-term and works for both people and our planet, tackling poverty and averting climate crisis.
~ Jo Swinson
It is right for us not to want our country transformed into a mere corridor, a giant railway station.
~ Marine Le Pen
I'm an Australian. And I'm speaking generally here, but Australians in general aren't patriotic or nationalistic. Our country was built by immigrants. So, by my experience, I've seen the way immigration has transformed nations. They are the key people who quite literally build civilizations, be it culturally or musically.
~ John Hillcoat
These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland.
~ Fritz Todt
Category of 'enemy' could spread to the whole nation
~ Slavenka Drakuli?
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
~ Spiro T. Agnew
PotÄ™ga frazesu byÅ'a i jest w Polsce arcypotÄ™gÄ…. DziaÅ'a ona na mózg polski zupeÅ'nie tak, jak du?a butla spirytusu.
~ Stanis?aw Mackiewicz
When you think about the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover. You think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies today.
~ Stanley Baldwin