Quotes About Nationalism

For 47 years, the U.K. has been forced to follow rules set by Brussels bureaucrats, many of whom have never set a foot on British soil.

No one will be allowed to misuse our soil.

In the Army, I was running for India and I was a soldier who could have died for India.

Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

I think if we are at a war with an enemy country, that country is responsible for our soldiers' deaths.

The first obligation is to the French people and establish solidarity among our own citizens.

Brexit is not going to solve the causes of Brexit.

Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit.

An oversupply of national sentiment is not the problem in Somalia. The problem is a lack of it. The problem is an oversupply of sub-sub-clannish attitude.

I think my patriotism is strong enough to not be offended when somebody takes a knee during the anthem. That's not something I take personally.

Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.

I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

Los quimonos son nuestra vida. Lléveselo si lo desea, pero tendrá que llevarme también a mí. ¡Puede ocupar mi país, pero jamás ocupará mi alma!

Germany belonged, with Italy, to the so-called verspätete Nationen (late-coming nations), which sought to compensate for their delayed arrival in the game of imperialism.

like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony...

If they cannot be woken to a natural affection for their country, such as we feel, it is our fault and not theirs.

From the early 1930s, professional purges led so many Jewish and "communist" academics and scientists to emigrate that this led to a major brain drain. By 1933, about 2,000 of the nation's premier artists and writers had fled as well.11 The Nazi periodical The Nettle depicted this emigration as "a triumph for the German nation."12

I don't belong to any side. What's more, I think flags are nothing but painted rags that represent rancid emotions. Just seeing someone wrapped up in one of them, spewing out hymns, badges and speeches, gives me the runs. I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself

Legions of men, butchered for the greater glory and the profit margins of bankers, chancellors, generals, stockbrokers, and other fathers of the nation, had been maimed and ruined for life in the name of freedom, democracy, the Empire, the race, or the flag…. Take your pick.

nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds.

At club level you have a lot of lads getting paid and stuff like that, but you would play for your country just for the love of playing for your country. That's the truth, for me anyway.

One thing the Scottish boys want in the changing room is the bragging rights over the English lads.