Quotes About Nationalism

You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

I don't think America will have really made it until we have our own salad dressing. Until then we're stuck behind the French, Italians, Russians, and Caesarians.

Yet of course nationalism is always "imagined"; identity is what you think you are.

The paysans had no flags or written histories, but they expressed their local patriotism in much the same way as nations: by denigrating their neighbours and celebrating their own nobility.

For many in America and around the world, the American flag has smothered the glory of the cross, and the ugliness of our American version of Caesar has squelched the radiant love of Christ.

I believe a significant segment of American evangelicalism is guilty of nationalistic and political idolatry.

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.

El orgullo de ser mexicano aumenta en momentos de crisis. Eso explica que en los últimos 70 años hayamos estado tan orgullosos. El orgullo entre nosotros es una forma de la desesperación.

?üphesiz kalabal?klar, bir inanc?n yahut bir fikrin zaferi için kolayca canlar?n? fedaya kadar gidebilirler. Hemen hemen ekmeksiz ve silahs?z olarak Haçl? Seferleri esnas?nda oldu?u gibi, bir ilah?n mezar?n? tekrar ele geçirmek için, yahut 93'te oldu?u gibi vatan topraklar?n? savunmak için, harekete getirilirler. Elbette bu kahramanl?klar biraz ?uursuzdur, fakat tarih böyle kahramanl?klarla yap?l?r.

Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

There have been a few attempts to turn Prime Minister Diefenbaker into the tragic hero of Canada's lost independence, but that is ludicrous. For one thing, the country's independence was certainly compromised, but it was not really lost. For another, Diefenbaker is nobody's hero: he was a bombastic prairie politico who combined a crude but saleable version of English Canadian nationalism with an unwavering commitment to a Cold War view of the world.

Gyáva az a korszak, amely a maga egyidej? képi m?vészetét nem teremti meg, és szerencsétlenek azok a m?vészek, akik ilyen, a nemzeti emlékezetben semmiféle nyomot sem hagyó korszakban élnek.

Una mayoría abrumadora de mexicanos cree con fe de carbonero que la propiedad pública del petróleo o el monopolio gubernamental de la energía eléctrica son pilares de la integridad nacional, ejes de la nación y la nacionalidad. Es la convicción, por ejemplo, del gobierno electo el 1 de julio de 2018.

La épica del nacionalismo revolucionario se diluye en un horizonte de crítica pública cuya tierra prometida es la democracia y cuya pieza de caza mayor es el dinosaurio priista.

El nacionalismo revolucionario absorbió todas las señas de identidad del pasado en un mezcla única.

Se es mexicano, entre otras cosas, porque se comparte la veneración de esas violencias y esos martirologios.

Victimismo y resentimiento son caras de la misma moneda. Una de esas monedas ha sido nuestro nacionalismo.

El nacionalismo mide el mundo en superioridad o inferioridad, en triunfo o derrota, en nos hicieron y les hicimos.

El nacionalismo cohesionó a México, le dio sentido de país y orgullo de comunidad, pero también le cerró los ojos, estimuló su provincianismo, lo llenó de mentiras. En el camino de la construcción nacionalista mexicana se han acumulado muchas mentiras constitutivas de nuestros orgullos nacionales: mentiras fundadoras.

Let my country die for me.

You die for your country... I say: Let my country die for me. Up to the present it has done so. I didn't want it to die. Damn death. Long live life.

And a barbarous bloody barbarian he is too, says the citizen.

Some day we shall have to choose between England and Europe.

But this is the point. You die for your country, suppose. (He places his arm on Private Carr's sleeve.) Not that I wish it for you. But I say: Let my country die for me. Up to the present it has done so. I don't want it to die. Damn death. Long live life!