Quotes About Nationalism

Tak ada orang progresif yang berpikiran sehat akan menentang cita-cita komunis, yang mencakup bantuan di bidang sosial dan ekonomi. Kami menyetujui ini semua. Tetapi aku tidak mungkin meninggalkan Tuhan. Aku tidak mungkin membuang nasionalisme dan aku tidak dapat membayangkan bagaimana aku bisa melepaskan diri dari sifat angkuh, jadi aku tidak mungkin menjadi seorang komunis.

Sudah merupakan suratan nasib Sukarno, untuk menyusun pergerakan yang membuat dia masuk penjara, lalu dibuang, tapi kemudian dia akan membebaskan kita semua. Sukarno bukan lagi milik orangtuanya. Karno sudah menjadi milik rakyat Indonesia. Kami harus menerima kenyataan ini - Ibu

Rakyat kami tidak takut mati. Lebih baik mati untuk kemerdekaan daripada hidup dalam kematian.

Ketika aku masuk penjara, aku akan menghadapinya dengan tabah. Kalau memang nasibku harus menghadapi penderitaan, biarkanlah. Bukankah lebih baik Sukarno menderita untuk sementara daripada Indonesia menderita untuk selama-lamanya?

Dari pertumpahan darah ini, dimana banyaj saudara-saudaraku menjadi korban, terbukti bahwa Indonesia tidak pernah menyerah. Kami tidak mau mengalah terhadap kolonialisme kembali, TIDAK!

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

A powerful sense of national pride built on a belief in historical humiliation, combined with an inability to distinguish between the nation and its government, goes a long way towards explaining why many in the Chinese diaspora, including Chinese-Australian citizens, remain loyal to the PRC and defend its actions even when they conflict with Australia's values and interests.

The answer to the nagging conundrum of how a civilized country like Germany could produce the Holocaust is that Germany ceased to be civilized from the moment Hitler came to power.

Nationalism is the culture of the uncultivated, and they are legion. —MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, CONTRO VIENTO Y MAREA, P. 439

Nationalism, as a state of mind, is all fervour and no judgement. National pride, however, is a different and better thing.

Patriotism is the wholesome, constructive love of one's land and people. Nationalism is the unhealthy love of one's government, accompanied by the aggressive desire to put down others – which becomes in deracinated modern men a substitute for religious faith. Patriotism is an appropriate, indeed necessary, sentiment for people who wish to preserve their freedom; nationalism is not.

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

I have no country. I don't want one. The root of all evil, the cause of every war—god and country.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

The English will never be forgiven for the talent for destruction they have always displayed when they get off their own island.

Nationalism is as thin as a thread, perhaps that's why many feel it must be anxiously guarded

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

I follow only one party: the Vietnamese party

Mr. Schoenbrun, we have a secret weapon ... don't smile when I tell you this. Our secret weapon is nationalism. To have nationhood, which is a sign of maturity, is greater than any weapons in the world.