Quotes About Nationalism

I would like to make work for my country, art which is innately Kenyan by being made in Kenya.

When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.

I don't think kneeling during the anthem is such a bad thing.

Financial globalisation and Islamist globalisation are helping each other out. Those two ideologies want to bring France to its knees.

Having grown up under Chinese rule, I don't have any memory of colonial Hong Kong or feel any attachment to it.

Serbs can only leave Kosovo.

There is no Kurdish problem.

Leaving Labour was one of the most difficult things I've ever had to do and it was not a cause of jubilation or happiness. I did it with great sadness, but you have to put the country first.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

All nationalism or racialism is evil, and Jewish nationalism is no exception.

Do not equate nationalism with patriotism... Nationalism is the first step on the road to Fascism.

Las personas que tan apasionadamente desprecian a la mitad de sus compatriotas son incapaces de sentir el mínimo autorrespeto.

My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober.

We don't want to fight, but, by jingo, if we do,We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, too.

My county? Another concept to which you attach from a distance a rather vague ideal. You want to know what "my country" really is? Nothing more or less than a gathering of shareholders, a form of property, bourgeois mentality, and vanity. Think about all the people in your country whom you wouldn't go near, and you'll see that the ties that are supposed to bind us together don't go very deep....

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

When I see those big labels, 'American,' I know someone is selling something. I get very uncomfortable with any kind of chauvinism—male, French or American."7

Since it was announced that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has condemned my works and criticized them harshly. All of my works are now banned from getting into China or being published in China. What author would want to return to a country that banned his or her books?

I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

it is difficult to understand that not everyone in the world wants to be an American.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

It is no accident that both of the substitutes for religion that Hoffer names—nationalism and social revolution—are political. Political/economic ideology is the religion of modernity. Like the adherents of traditional religion, many people find comfort in their political worldview, and greet critical questions with pious hostility.50 Instead of crusades or inquisitions, the twentieth century had its notorious totalitarian movements.

They are the most insidious propagandists ever to cloak self-serving greed with pseudo-patriotism.

Commodore Stephen Decatur. And he said, 'My country, may she always be right—but my country, right or wrong.