Quotes About Nationalism

After all, Americans can be terrifying.

You can be patriotic and still believe that some things cost more than what they're worth.

This sense of political impotence-this experience of acquiescence without commitment'-yields three basic forms of politics: sporadic terrorism for impatient, angry and nihilistic radicals; professional reformism for comfortable, cultivated and concerned liberals; and evangelical nationalism for frightened, paranoid and accusatory conservatives.

The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of the imperial European powers it had liberated itself from by blood. By keeping their GDP at home, the U.S. revolutionaries were able to bootstrap their nation into an industrial powerhouse. Now, it seems, their descendants are bent on ensuring that no other country can pull the same trick off.

Death is cured! USA! USA! USA! "This is Canada." "Yeah, but you sound stupid chanting 'Ca-na-da!

Se volete vincere la guerra, voi non potete distruggere la patria dell'operaio. Non potete distruggere le macchine, le officine, le industrie. Il problema non è soltanto polacco, è europeo. Anche in tutti gli altri paesi d'Europa, da voi occupati, potete distruggere la patria dei nobili, la patria dei borghesi, ma non la patria degli operai.

Quando li avrete ammazzati tutti, quando in Russia non ci saranno più cani, andranno i ragazzi russi a ficcarsi sotto il ventre dei vostri carri. Ach, son tutti della stessa razza, rispose tutti figli di cani. E si allontanò sputando per terra con profondo disprezzo. I like Russian dogs, disse Westmann they ought to be fathers of the brave Russian boys.

Ce vreau eu sa stiu - ce ma nedumereste pe mine - este cum pot oamenii care traiesc in aceeasi tara, care vorbesc aceeasi limba, care citesc aceleasi ziare si asa mai departe, sa fie atat de deosebiti, realmente deosebiti, in sentimentele lor. Asta nu pot sa inteleg.

Can England die? And what if England dies?

That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.

The name for that kind of system in Europe was corporatism, fascism, or national socialism. But the World of Tomorrow Roosevelt would design, Walt Disney would promote, and Superman would personify was to be a friendly fascism securing truth, justice, and the American way, freedom in abundance and abundance in freedom, ultimately for the whole human race.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

the removal of all royal governments in the colonies. Patriotic

Einstein's pacifism, world federalism, and aversion to nationalism were part of a political outlook that also included a passion for social justice, a sympathy for underdogs, an antipathy toward racism, and a predilection toward socialism.

The volcano has not yet gone dormant; the wars of ethnic survival continue to break out. The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, and the Syrian, Kurdish, and Ukrainian conflicts of the following decades demonstrate that the old dynamics are still there.

But patriotism, as it is the fairest, so it is often the most suspicious mask of other feelings;

How did a movement that was defined by its belief in individual liberty and respect for the Constitution, free markets, personal responsibility, traditional values, and civility find itself embracing a stew of nativism, populism, and nationalism?

During the last presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama, asked why he was not wearing a flag pin, answered that it represented "a substitute" for "true patriotism." Bad move. Months later, Obama quietly beat a retreat and began wearing the flag on his lapel. He does so still.

mass destruction are the only threat facing the post–Cold War world. They are only the most obvious. Other threats exist, but they are more speculative and can be seen today only in outline: the rise, for example, of intolerant aggressive nationalism in a disintegrating communist bloc (in one extreme

The love of all people except the French people, is deep in the mind of the great doctors of the French Republic.

No modern idea has affected history more than the passion of nationalism.

Nationalism is a self-constructed cage in which family members can huddle in safety when they're not growling and barking at someone outside the cage.

1924 U.S. (Federal) Immigration Act of 1924, also known as the Johnson-Reed Act, limits the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. It completely prohibits immigration from Asia.

Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph.