Quotes About Nationalism

I am a proud, British-born Muslim, and I love my country more than any other place on earth.

If there can be Muslim and Christian countries, why can't there be a Hindu country?

I don't think it's a good thing to have Christian states, Muslim states, or any kind of ethnic states.

Donald Trump has been horrendous, saying things are bad because of Muslims or Mexicans. This is exactly what happened in the 1930s in Germany, and it's gonna get worse.

We've always seen ourselves as Indian. We've never seen ourselves as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhists.

Like my father Bal Thackeray, those Muslims who consider India their motherland, respect the laws of this country, don't ignite riots and live amicably, we have nothing against them - as far as the others, they have no right to live in India.

I sing the Italian anthem with all my soul, with my whole body.

In my time also when you do good, Frenchmen don't like it.

Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

India's nuclear-test blasts have pretty much put to rest the myth of Indians being peace-loving Gandhians.

Even as a kid, I don't think I bought into a lot of the mythology about Canada.

Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

The long years of fighting Napoleon's ambitions for a world empire had hardened the British into an 'us-against-them' mentality.

For America, 1812 became the war in which it had finally gained its independence. For Britain, 1812 became the skirmish it had contained, while winning the real war against its greatest nemesis, Napoleon.

Choosing to disrespect our flag is an over-generalized indictment of the greatest nation on Earth.

I feel unabashedly Indian, and this means that not just do I jump to my feet and sing along with the national anthem, it also makes me inexplicably sentimental, proud and teary-eyed.

When I represent the Under-21s and sing the national anthem, there is no better feeling.

For centuries in this country, black people were seen as three-fifths of a person. So when you hear the national anthem or you see an American flag as an African American person who has experienced the effects of that dehumanizing existence, it's not going to mean the same.

Kneeling and gesturing, turning your back on the flag and disrespecting the national anthem is gross, self-indulgent and moronic.

The Euro-bureaucrats are destroying every bit of national identity and individuality.

The emergence of a strong Muslim identity in Britain is, in part, a result of multicultural policies implemented since the 1980s, which have emphasized difference at the expense of shared national identity.

There won't be a law with sanctions, but Mexicans and Mexican consumers will know how to value those companies that are loyal to our national identity and those that are not.

Japan is not going to do anything with any country that harms the national interest.

Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.