Quotes About Nationalism

Patriotism ruins history.

There was no such thing as Palestinians…. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people… and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.

the country's designation remained "the United States of America," with its people appropriating the name that belonged to all the peoples of the New World—even though the term "Americans" actually had begun as a pejorative label the metropolitan English had applied to their inferior and far-removed colonists.101

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

The romance of treason never occurred to us for the brutally simple reason that you can't betray a country you don't have. (Think about it).

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I

It is a terrible omen when you see an American flag on somebody else's car and realize that's your enemy.

this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them...

The religion of Hell is patriotism, and the government is an enlightened democracy.

Silver Shirts

One of the misfortunes of a nation, is to hear little besides its own praises.

Let's get real: would any American president seriously open up their borders unconditionally to Mexico as the U.K. has done to the whole of the E.U.? No chance.

You can't underestimate how patriotic the people of this country are.

Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty.

India belongs to Indians of all kinds. Efforts to undermine this fact will only take our country backwards and destroy our hard-fought freedom. We must not let that happen.

I have to give this comment about the American people - they are very good fans. But they are very protective. I think they would prefer it if their great stars are born in America. They are the ones that only stay in the hearts of the fans. And that's understandable.

White nationalism is in fact white supremacy. It's understandable that white supremacists would want to be called nationalists, but that doesn't make them any less supremacist.

All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.

From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence.

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.

I will tell you unequivocally, a wall from sea to shining sea is not the right direction to go.

When people today say 'racism,' they mean it's a nationalism they don't like. Racialism used to be a good thing, a looking-out for what was best for one group... Israel comes out of that 19th-century idea of nationalism. Many Arab states also have preferences. It's fundamentally unfair to decide that one is racism and the others aren't.

Unfortunately, generations of people have been told by their political leaders that they are more exceptional human beings than the rest of the world - this sense of privilege is incredibly toxic.

Our love for our country is worth nothing if it deprives us of our sense of humanity, if it destroys positive consensus.