Quotes About Nationalism

When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely.

Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn't.

Mexico secures their border. Why shouldn't we be able to secure ours?

When we attach ourselves to national identities, then we enter into a cycle of conflict. I didn't choose where I was born or who to be or what people would call me.

I think we should be less dependent on the outdated concept we call countries.

Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.

My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.

If I can teach cricket overseas, why wouldn't I do so in my own country?

When I see the crumbling roads and bridges, or the dilapidated airports, or the factories moving overseas to Mexico, or to other countries, I know these problems can all be fixed, but not by Hillary Clinton - only by me.

Most people, they get overwhelmed by the religious stories, the nationalist stories, by the economic stories of the day, and take these stories to be the reality.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

In Fourth Generation war, invasion by immigration can be at least as dangerous as invasion by a state army.

Ik heb nooit, zoals als zij, geloofd in militaire triomfen in naam van God, volk of staat. Ik ben gepokt en gemazeld een Vlaming van de nooit-meer-oorloggeneratie. De lessen van het verspilde bloed aan Den IJzer, en in alle Europese loopgraven van '14-'18, zijn me met de paplepel ingegeven. Een goede oorlog? Dat is een tegenstrijdigheid in de bewoordingen.

Kijkend naar Vanhecke besefte je eens te meer wat de beknopte definitie van fascisme is. Mannelijke hysterie.

1938, Italians from Milan to Naples had opened their newspapers to discover that they were all "pure Aryan Nordics" and that their Jewish colleagues were dangerous aliens. Jews, including die-hard Fascists, were dismissed from all military, university, and government posts. By that fall, Italian Jews were not allowed to have listed phone numbers, presumably because it corrupted the sea of pure Nordic names in the Italian telephone directory.

As with national revolutions elsewhere, both peoples in Palestine tended to put nationalism above democracy and human rights.

Zionism required its supporters to reconsider their Jewish identities and to position themselves between the values of Jewish tradition and a new Jewish nationalism.

The rest of the world loves soccer. Surely we must be missing something. Uh, isn't that what the Russians told us about communism? There's a good reason why you don't care about soccer - it's because you are an American and hating soccer is more American than mom's apple pie, driving a pick-up and spending Saturday afternoon channel-surfing with the remote control.

A simple way to take the measure of a country is to look at how many want in . . . and how many want out.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

All Americans are defensive. You can't help it.

spiritual awakening through which they would see that all their cherished patriotic ideals were no more than a deadly tissue of dreams.

Gott Mit Uns! Nobiscum Deus! Emmanuel! Heil Hitler! Hail Victory! Seig Heil! Seig Heil! Seig Heil! Seig Heil! Seig Heil!