Quotes About Nationalism

however hard you try to dissolve patriotism with the other ingredients of an emotional stew, it always floats to the top, just like grease finding its way to the surface of a meat broth.

Un día por encima del pentágono y las bananas y le petroleo, los hombres comprederan la imbecilidad incurable de los nacionalismos

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

Canada's the best country in the world.

His answer, given to me with tears in his eyes: 'Damn it, I happen to love this country.

Why have the English remained to English? Throughout India's history conquerors have come from elsewhere, and all of them --- Turk, Arab, Hun, Mongol, Persian --- have become Indian. If --- when ---this Pakistan happens, those Muslims who leave Delhi, Lucknow and Hyderabad to go there, They will be leaving their homes. But when the English leave, they'll be going home.

an Indian, introducing the English to the history of India, which was his history and not theirs. It was a surprising thought, and something in it made him uneasy. He had thought the world would change around him but his own life would stay unaffected. 'India

Why have the English remained so English?

But when the English leave, they'll be going home.

Benazir was Prime Minister; she had taken the oath of office in a bright green shalwar with white dupatta, the colours of the Pakistan flag, and made the men around her look like pygmies.

Right now, my deep suspicion is that it's possible, perhaps even inevitable, to live between – no, among – nationalities. It's a bit like wearing different suits, all of them the wrong size, all of them slightly ridiculous, either too baggy or too tight. They don't make the right size anymore, it's been discontinued.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

I think, generally, British people are more culturally cynical about the things that involve our own country. Especially the royals.

Baathism in Iraq equals Nazism in Germany.

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

There's never going to be a united Ireland, you know.

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

For me, no one aspect of the Brexit debate displays so markedly the monomania of many Brexiteers as does the Irish question.

Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.

I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.

Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain.

In both British and American history, fervent imperialism has always coexisted with bouts of fierce isolationism.

The State of Israel can be proud of what we're doing.