Quotes About Nationalism

For me, I am always hoping to play for the national team.

It's hard to think about the national team when you are with your club side and so invested in your team, your individual self and trying to win a play-off series.

Nationalism can be a destructive force when it promotes intolerance and division. But it can also be a force for good, when it seeks to defend local autonomy against the homogenizing forces of larger entities.

Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.

You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East.

All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents.

Nationalism is not that hard. It's not that hard to incite people against another, and it's also - and this is the harder thing: Democrats have, and the challenge we have all the time, is we believe in governing and governance and trying to find middle ground.

Under Nasser, Egyptian nationalism was built on little more than pan-Arab irredentism and anti-Western and anti-Israeli sentiment. Mr. Mubarak retained these powerful brainwashers and allowed the rise of a religious component to further alienate Egyptians from liberal and democratic thinking.

Over the course of history, the answer to nationalism has been liberalism, and I believe it can be the answer again.

Nationalism is like alcoholism: a short period of exaltation followed by a long period of headaches.

Economic nationalism is what this country was built on. The American system.

It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.

Let's be cautious about narrow nationalism.

Why is Mexican nationalism a good thing, but putting American interests first needs defending?

I think part of what we're seeing in the rise of white nationalism is their response to Black Lives Matter, is their response to an ever-increasing fight for equal rights, for civil rights, and for human rights.

Nationalism has nothing to do with democratic values: Authoritarians can be nationalists; indeed, most are.

My parents' generation grew up high on the Arab nationalism that Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser brandished in the 1950s.

It is not white nationalism to recognize limiting principles on liberal universalism, and a justifiable role for particularity - ethnic, cultural, religious - in many political arrangements.

The issue for me is not just Brexit. It is beyond Brexit - how you conduct politics and the veering towards populism and English nationalism.

White nationalism is about keeping power white. Yes, yes, there are minority groups represented among Justin Trudeau's ministers, but they were all given jobs by a white guy.

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.

One day, Mexico will have a leader who is nationalist not simply in rhetoric, but also in fact.

I don't describe myself as a nationalist, but I do love my country.