Quotes About Nationalism

The parents of rich kids tended to be more patriotic because they had more to lose if the country went under.

I thought about Nietzsche. There we were: a German stallion and a Jewish mare. The fatherland would adore me.

Throughout all of the nineteenth and much of the twentieth century, nationalism was ascendant, and historians identified history with nations, rather than with cultures, religions, or ways of life.

A certain Herr Schurz, a Prussian politician, once said: 'My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

Ghana and Nigeria resented each other and competed for supremacy in every sphere—politics, academia, sports, you name it.

After years on a drunken bender, Americans are awakening to lies masked in patriotism and glory.

As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of war our fulfillment, we will never understand those who do battle against us, or how we are perceived by them

Nationalism, the revolutionary theorist Rosa Luxemburg warned, is always a tool used to betray the working class. It is, she wrote, "an instrument of counterrevolutionary class policy."76 It unleashes powerful forms of indoctrination.

Kashmiri people should not get misguided by pro-Pakistani elements and remember that their future is linked to India.

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

What's good for America is great for Montana.

Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, the leader of the Leave campaign, have tapped into a similar public mood of disgruntlement. On both sides of the Atlantic, a lot of people feel they've been handed a bad deal.

Winning the Asian Games is about the most important thing I have achieved for my country, and seeing the delight on the faces of the people back home is something that will last with me forever.

India is my motherland.

I don't read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.

I sound like a racist, a benighted man or a xenophobe, but I'm motivated by love for my country and the knowledge that I don't have another country.

Foreign workers, attracted to Nigeria from other African countries during boom times, were deeply resented during hard times-and were brutally expelled en masse, largely to Ghana.1N

People are inclined to accept all stories of ancient times in an uncritical way – even when these stories concern their own native countries.

They didn't know the first thing about Diem's tyranny, or the nature of Vietnamese nationalism, or the long colonialism of the French—this was all too damned complicated, it required some reading—but no matter, it was a war to stop the Communists, plain and simple, which was how they liked things, and you were a treasonous pussy if you had second thoughts about killing or dying for plain and simple reasons. I

They loved their country largely because they controlled it.

As a result, no nation-state today dared even to contemplate an attack on America.

Cuba must be ours," declared Mississippi senator Jefferson Davis. He also wanted the Yucatán peninsula, so that the Gulf of Mexico would become "a basin of water belonging to the United States." His fellow Mississippian, Senator Albert Brown, coveted Central America. "I want these countries for the spread of slavery," he said. "I would spread the blessings of slavery, like the religion of our Divine Master, to the uttermost ends of the earth.

triple evils of modernity: Nazism, Communism and 'Americanism'.

The European dilemma is