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Quotes About Nationalism

A white nationalist would claim that flying the confederate flag on a state building is an expression of cultural history, rather than racial sentiment. A white nationalist would claim, as the television host Megyn Kelly once did on Fox News, that Jesus was white, and, by implication, God, too.
~ Neil Macdonald
White nationalist groups have infiltrated federal and local law enforcement agencies.
~ Cori Bush
Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
~ James Joyce
I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.
~ Narendra Modi
Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.
~ Evelyn Waugh
I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.
~ Henry Cabot Lodge
The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations.
~ Timothy McVeigh
None of Europe's modern nations are genuinely native.
~ Norman Davies
My place is in Serbia if the NATO criminals bomb.
~ Peter Handke
Semiconductors weren't simply the "cornerstone" of "everything we're competing on," as one administration official had put it. They could also be a devastatingly powerful weapon.
~ Chris Miller
One of my first reservations about Zionism was and is that, semiconsciously at least, it grants the anti-Semite's first premise about the abnormality of the Jew.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Populists (and 'national socialists') look at the supposedly secret deals that run the world 'behind the scenes'. Child's play. Except that childishness is sinister in adults.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I am always and at once on the defensive, for example, when people speak of races and nations as if they were personalities and had souls and destinies and such like.
~ Christopher Hitchens
National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.
~ Umberto Eco
Però ho capito che per indurre un francese a riconoscere una tara della sua genìa basta parlargli male di un altro popolo, come a dire "noi polacchi abbiamo questo o quest'altro difetto" e, poiché non vogliono essere secondi a nessuno, neppure nel male, subito reagiscono con "oh no, qui in Francia siamo peggio" e via a sparlare dei francesi, sino a che non si rendono conto che li hai presi in trappola.
~ Umberto Eco
It has happened just about as I told you, M. Budd." Lanny said it was so, and thought that the death of something like a hundred and twenty-five thousand Frenchmen, and the captivity of ten or twelve times as many, signified less to Pierre Laval than the ability to say: "C'est moi qui avait raison!
~ Upton Sinclair
simon-pure American Nationalism, America First, America for Americans, and let us
~ Upton Sinclair
was one of the fixed laws of the universe that Americans could beat Europeans at anything, once they put their minds to it.
~ Upton Sinclair
He didn't know how to speak properly, how to walk properly, how to comb his hair, and she felt embarrassed for him as he shouted about restoring jobs and national honor, about a better and splendid Germany. The mob applauded, shouted. Did people really believe that he wanted what was best for Germany?
~ Ursula Hegi
I don't have any fears whatsoever. I am fulfilling my duty to my country.
~ Uva de Aragón
More than England to the British West Indian or even Holland to the Surinamer, France is the mother country to the Martiniquan.
~ V.S. Naipaul
I had seen how deep in nearly every West Indian, high and low, were the prejudices of race; how often these prejudices were rooted in self-contempt; and how much important action they prompted. Everyone spoke of nation and nationalism but no one was willing to surrender the priviledges or even the separateness of his group.
~ V.S. Naipaul
The nationalism of a small nation can, with treacherous ease, become detached from its roots in what is noble and human. It then become pitiful, making the nation appear smaller rather than greater. It is the same with nations as with individuals; while trying to draw attention to the inadequacies of others, people all too often reveal their own.
~ Vasily Grossman