Quotes About Nationalism

We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

During peace time a scientist belongs to the World, but during war time he belongs to his country.

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"

We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.

Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union

The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.

You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.

After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the time of partition in 1947, he quipped, then I guess Pakistan would have won.

War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.

War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.

We are proud to say we are racist and hate to see Whites fighting each other. I oppose the Wars.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.