Quotes About Nationalism

È un bene essere patrioti, sentire di appartenere a una società, a una nazione o a una comunità di fedeli, ma ciò non può giustificare il nazionalismo sciovinista e cieco, l'affermazione dell'eccezione e dell'elezione nazionale e/o religiosa, o ancora l'intransigenza dogmatica di coloro che difendono i propri correligionari in qualsiasi circostanza

People don't leave their homeland simply because governments stage events. One's native land is not like the soil we put in flowerpots, where we pour water and fertilizer and then change the soil after an interval.

Our nation was built on chips and Spam fritters.

Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.

Secessionists, whether in Scotland, Catalonia, Quebec or anywhere else, invariably assume that a person must either be Scottish or British, Catalan or Spanish, Quebecois or Canadian. What about those who feel they are both?

You go to Paris, or you go to Portugal, you go to Poland, and you ask, 'Who are you people?' They'll tell you, we're Portuguese, we're Spanish, we're Polish. Who are the people that are really European? The people in Brussels, in the E.U. bureaucracy. Europe has not been able to move to the level of patriotic identification with the concept.

I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.

If you go to Spain and ask, 'Who has the best goalkeepers?' they will say, 'The Spanish.' If you go to Germany, they will say German goalkeepers, and Italy the same. You go to England and they say, 'God knows!'

I am, 'Guardian' readers keep telling me, a xenophobe. Never mind that I speak French and Spanish, that I love Europe, that I've lived a high proportion of my life abroad. The fact that I oppose the political amalgamation of the European Union's states is ipso facto proof that I dislike foreigners.

I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is part of it.

You are not speaking for yourself, but for Ireland.

We're not radical when we are speaking about fewer immigrants.

I will tell you another thing, we Argentines criticise Messi because we are specialists in criticising what is ours.

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

Our beautiful homeland is enough for us, Arabs and Jews. If we turn her into a battlefield, she will spit us out.

I feel that our attitude to our borders is wrong; it's the first time that an awful lot of people think you can and should just close your border and remain in this splendid isolation.

Sovereigntism and separatism they are... it may seem like it's splitting hairs, but a lot of Quebecers are sovereignists - they respect the sovereignty of Quebec. They're not interested in separating.

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

The young man who joins a political party is a traitor to his generation and to his race.

That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.

Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.