Quotes About Nationalism

insofar as an American thinks that the sex he or she is having is an intimate, private thing constructed within a space governed by personal consent, she or he is having straight sex, straight sex authorized by national culture; she or he is practicing national heterosexuality...

The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.

?ngiliz hodgâmd?r, heyecans?zd?r. Bir millet de?il, bir y???n. Y???n? kolayca kand?rabilirsiniz, duygular? hiçbir temele dayanmaz. Y???n dü?ünmez, mâruz kal?r. Nezleye yakalan?r gibi tutulur bir fikre. Ate?i yükselince arslanla??r, nöbet geçince her mukaddesi unutuverir. Büyük bir milletin duygular? ölçülü, düzenli, devaml?d?r.

Sömürgecili?in mezar kaz?c?s? olarak ça??m?z?n iki büyük ideolojisi el ele vermi?tir: milliyetçilik ve sosyalizm.

The "rail splitter" from Illinois united the nationalism of Hamilton with the democracy of Jefferson, and his appeal was clothed in the simple language of the people, not

Be England what she will,With all her faults she is my country still.

With the nationalist intelligentsia increasingly in conflict with the liberals, the Communist Party came down in favour of the former, who were given greater latitude than the liberals to publish unorthodox views and faced less severe punishment for transgressions. It was the beginning of a new era in the Soviet Union, the introduction of nationalism into the mainstream – an era described by historian Yitzhak Brudny as 'politics by culture'.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

France cannot be France without greatness.

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

Nationalism and jingoism—essential corollaries of militarism—are also systemic imperatives because they divide the global working classes, and bind them to the elites oppressing them through the visceral cultural power of patriotism and nationalism.

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

there was wild excitement, patriotic fervour, not a touch of human sympathy.

We Britons had at that time particularly settled that it was treasonable to doubt our having and our being the best of every thing; otherwise, while I was scared by the immensity of London, I think I might have had some faint doubts whether it was not rather ugly, crooked, narrow, and smoky.

For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa. The difference did not exist.

What is good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa.

Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.

because for years I thought what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa.

NOT "What's good for General Motors is good for the country.

We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.

We can't all be Washington, but we can all be Patriots.

There are instincts that are deeper than anything else — deeper than death — and of these the strongest is the instinct of country that men call patriotism. Perhaps patriotism is the splendid spur by which the gods achieve their ends. I don't know. But nothing is so dominating, so powerful, as this patriotism.