Quotes About Nationalism

If you are Pakistani or Indian you might just as well commit suicide when the team is humiliated; if you're West Indian, you might feel the world has fallen apart when things go wrong at the Oval. But these are countries where cricket is one of the leading suppliers of national pride. In England, you don't support cricket teams, you follow them. It's the game you support, not the team.

The charge I myself should bring against the German people is that of over indulgence in patriotism. Out of it have grown most of their follies.

I think I want the best for my country. I can make work that makes us examine some truths about ourselves - that would be more of a contribution. That's how I see it.

But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.

I prefer to rule and work in Nigeria in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free in the name of my country.

The British are very stubborn. The Queen, the Commonwealth, and the special relationship with the U.S. is much more important than Europe.

Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.

The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.

In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

Where a country lies is a subjective decision and only in part a product of its own desire. Much, if not most, is determined by what others believe about it.

Identitarianism assumes that people are condemned to identify with the positive (ethnic/ gender/ nationalistic) predicates they possess, as if their subjectivity were exhausted by those properties. Exactly the opposite is the case: the authentic dimension of subjectivity consists not in any positive identity but in that which makes identifications.

Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.

I am opposed to a multicultural France. I think that those who have a different culture and who arrive in France have to submit themselves to French culture.

We don't need a strongman. But we need a strong country that is not subordinate to Europe.

The Scottish desire for independence is, to some extent, a fabrication. They want to identify themselves as Scots but still to be part of a, to enjoy the subsidy they get from being part of the kingdom.

War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Leaving the E.U. will enable the U.K. to undertake a major campaign for import substitution.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.

Those who make their patriotism a vehicle for intolerance are very dangerous.

The more extreme conservatives will embrace religion and nationalism to a higher degree.

sound and fury of these "my culture is better than your culture" conflicts between male-dominated colonial governments and male-dominated Third-World nationalist movements often served to obscure the fact that women were clearly second-class citizens in all these cultural contexts.

We Germans have a history of sacrificing everything for one strong leader," her father had said. "It's our fear of chaos.

God—I don't know why—wanted me to be a Czech. It was not my choice. But I accept it, and I try to do something for my country because I live here.