Quotes About Nationalism

For all the farcical invoking of Blitz spirit, Brexit isn't merely an absurdist experiment in English nationalist nostalgia - it is the most audacious example yet of a futuristic Russian nationalism that seeks to divide and rule Europe.

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

I have noticed that no other group of people in the United States truly loves America as a whole like white people do.

The notion that a company would give up on this nation to get a tax break isn't going to sit well with the American people.

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

Violence and disrespect for your country are going to get you nowhere.

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

I'm quite happy to laugh at Argentina's obsession with ham and cheese, but not, you know, delicate bits of their history.

The Serbian people certainly will never be an obstacle for the Montenegrins to have their own country.

Obviously, we shouldn't be having any American officeholder or any American candidate looking for foreign nations to come in and be involved in U.S. elections.

On some occasions, it is every footballer's dream to play for the national team, but if you don't reach it, you always need to work harder to reach a higher level, a level you wouldn't reach if you didn't have this as a goal.

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.

Like Wilson during World War I, Franklin Roosevelt believed in "positive nationalisms" as the best guard against authoritarian ideologies, but with the crucial difference that America this time could and should assist in finessing the content of these nationalisms and the reforms they envisaged for their countries when liberated from the enemy menace.

77 millones de chinos murieron por causas no naturales a consecuencia de las guerras o de los asesinatos de masas por motivos políticos entre las décadas de 1920 y 1980, y la inmensa mayoría de ellos murieron a manos de compatriotas suyos.1

In the words of William McKinley, Our flag has never waved over any community but in blessing.

Evet, bütün dünya Türk'ün düÅŸman?d?r, ama Türk'ün en büyük düÅŸman? Türk'ün kendisidir.

We used to be brothers and sisters here. Kurdish, did not know he was. Turkmenians, Germans, they all existed here but never were proud of it. That pride was only distributed by the powers who aimed to destroy Turkey.

in the twenty-first century, with the era of traditional empires and colonies long since behind us, the word "nationalist" has become a label almost always employed to lend prestige to the behavior of people who tend to agree with everything their government says, have no other aim but to curry favor with those in power, and lack the courage to stand up to authority.

The ancient bond between the tsarist state and Russian nationalism could be used to create powerful emotions when the enemy came from the heathen east. The Mongol invasion had left a powerful mark on the Russian psyche. It was expressed in a deep anxiety about the mixed Eurasian roots of the people and it's culture, which made it easy for an educated liberal to convince themselves that this war was nothing less than a defense of Russia's European identity against the Asian hordes.

the reader will find here that works of literature, like War and Peace, are intercut with episodes from daily life (childhood, marriage, religious life, responses to the landscape, food and drinking habits, attitudes to death) where the outlines of this national consciousness may be discerned. These are the episodes where we may find, in life, the unseen threads of a common Russian sensibility, such as Tolstoy had imagined in his celebrated dancing scene.

Each power entered the Crimean War with its own motives. Nationalism and imperial rivalries combined with religious interests.

And Americans always think international laws are for other people anyway

So quickly does nationalism surface in the heart of a man who thought he was above such tribalism.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious