Quotes About Nationalism

Whether on the scaffold high. Or on the battle-field we die, Oh, what matter, when for Erin dear we fall.

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

Born in inquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

There is Ontario patriotism, Quebec patriotism, or Western patriotism; each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others, but there is no Canadian patriotism, and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism.

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms, - never! never! never!

International sport is war without shooting.

The more I see of other countries the more I love my own.

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. We've fought the Bear before and while we're Britons true, The Russians shall not have Constantinople.

The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation.

Jews refuse to apply Kant's categorical imperative and be limited by universal rules. We might attempt a definition of a Jew as someone unable to make an objective moral judgement. His arguments will forever vary according to whether the subject is good for Jews or bad for Jews. WMD are bad in gentile hands but good in Jewish ones. Gentile nationalism is bad, devotion to the Jewish cause is good. Equal rights for Jews and non-Jews is good in Europe but bad in Palestine.

Stalin`s Russia treated Jews as equals — not as superiors like the US. If Jewish nationalism were treated in England and the US as it was in Moscow in the days of Stalin, the citizens of Baghdad and Teheran, Basra and Ramallah would be able to sleep peacefully in their own homes.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

Violence is as American as cherry pie.   —RAP (HUBERT GEROLD) BROWN

Nationalism makes us poor because its Siamese twin, protectionism, will destroy the internal market and disrupt international trade.

Narendra Modi is the Donald Trump of India. They are like twin brothers.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.

I was born to two people who helped me imbibe feelings of nationhood in my heart and love for the country.

If you represent our country, it should represent us. It's supposed to be a two-way thing, but we live and we learn, and it's getting better.

Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.

The funny thing about nationalism is that there are two sides to it. Some parts of it are beautiful, but there's an ugly side as well.

People in Scotland want to have Scotland in the UK and the UK in the EU, and that's what the Liberal Democrats are arguing for.

When it comes to the UK, our problem is that weve never decolonised.

Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.