Quotes About Nationalism

My ideology is not connected to the Palestinians.

Israel defines Palestinians more than anything else.

We have always been taught that hockey is our national game, but it is only in general knowledge books and not on official papers.

Actually, it doesn't matter to the papers why you left Glasgow. They never look at the roots of the problems you had, and you simply end up being painted as un-nationalistic.

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and less willing to sacrifice resources for the sake of others' development.

How can any person with a myopic view and harbouring intense parochial attitude even think of leading the nation?

I think you can see a clear link between certain kinds of Christian nationalism and support for Trump. Then, I also think that Trump is benefiting from the weakening of religious participation. He's winning evangelicals who aren't in church.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

There is very little chance of the modern Republican Party putting the national interest above their own partisan interests.

Jinnah cannot be honoured in India. He's responsible for the partition of our country. No Jinnah eulogy is acceptable in India.

I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.

a precept that it is a Divine Commandment to obey Germans

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field it's in contention with a lot of different things.

En el caso de algunos estímulos semánticos, como "frontera", "inmigración" o "integración", la expectativa alimentaria del participante cultural adiestrado exitosamente está tan firmemente fijada, que la saliva invade de inmediato. Mientras esté mojado en los foros, se puede suponer que las secreciones se mantienen inofensivas.

National culture and national self-expression tend to be self-serving and mythologising (all the more acutely so, perhaps, if foreigners proof even better at mythologising than the locals and drive the locals on to ever-greater feats of self-deception). National culture, by definition, is mythologising, self-serving and at the same time, self-mutilating, designed as it is to focus a group identity by creating shibboleths and stereotypes.

Kime yaranmak olursa olsun, güzel Türkçe dururken, sokak levhalar?na, tabelâlara Frans?zca ibareler yaz?lmas?na aleyhtar oldu?umu söyledim.

Others such as Baden-Powell and Kipling were concerned that western civilisation would dissolve if its white blood was thinned.

Nationalism associated all too easily with anti-semitism. The huge leap in population growth of the nineteenth century, migrations and contacts with other racial groups, had led to theories of eugenics – subscribed to even by intellectual socialists such as H.G.Wells – which advocated drastic and racist measures to accomplish restriction.

On returning to Germany, he rejoined Hitler, whom he believed to be the only man who could make Germany great again.

Everyone in Germany was somebody different before March 1933. And as I'm always saying, 'Who isn't a National Socialist when there's a gun pointed at his head?

Loud songs do not a patriot make.

Whenever people talk in the abstract about the pros and cons of immigration, one should not forget that immigrants are individual human beings whose lives happen not to fit neatly within national borders – and that like all human beings, they are all different. How different, though? Different better, or different worse? Such basic questions underlie whether people are willing to accept outsiders in their midst

W)e are Canadians and not Americans because of a foolish war that scarcely anyone wanted or needed, but which, once launched, no one knew how to stop.