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Quotes About Nationalism

Kuka täällä ryssää puhuu? – Koskela Suomesta. Syö rautaa ja paskantaa kettinkiä.
~ Unknown
I feel a very deep respect for people who love their country . . Officer Werner Von Ebrennac
~ Unknown
Multiculturalism Multiculturalism was introduced as an early attempt to destroy nationalism. The bizarre and unpopular millennial celebrations held in London were an early version of Agenda 21 – designed to help eradicate English nationalism. Anyone who opposes multiculturalism is automatically denounced as a racist.
~ Unknown
Years later, historians would try to explain the complicated reasons for such behavior. In part, they would conclude, it was a cocktail of harsh discipline, national fervor, religion, childhood education, a cultural embrace of obedience over individuality, and a demand for utter allegiance and bravery that was enforced with physical punishment. But to an Allied soldier in the field, it didn't matter why. They simply never wanted to find themselves at the mercy of the Japanese. That night
~ Unknown
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
~ Victor Hugo
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
~ Victor Hugo
They have over-cultivated national rhetoric [. . .] they will have to undertake something.
~ Victor Klemperer
National Socialism adapts Fascism, Bolshevism, Americanism, works it all into Teutonic Romanticism.
~ Victor Klemperer
We hear a lot about Palestine now; it does not appeal to us. Anyone who goes there exchanges nationalism and narrowness for nationalism and narrowness.
~ Victor Klemperer
The immigration thing has to be brought to a head, and I feel that the best way to do that is endorse the worst, in the sense of he is a racist and he knows what I'm talking about.
~ Tom Metzger
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
~ Henry Louis Gates
An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.
~ George Bernard Shaw
We've believed for 50 years that the Japanese are small Americans who wanted to be like us. They are not.
~ Lester Thurow
We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Hitler as "the only man who can save us
~ Unknown
national awakening" it oversaw proved useful, as it allowed the Nazis to label "Marxist" opponents as un-German traitors and terrorists.
~ Unknown
The Song of the Germans
~ Unknown
But we were Germans; the gangsters who had taken control of the country were not Germany—we were.
~ Peter Gay
This is what is called dying for your country, but it is actually selling your soul to a few profiteers for a shilling, and being massacred to satisfy their selfish purposes. And they call it WAR--and a legitimate thing at that. -Private Arthur Wrench, Headquarters, 154th Brigade, 51st Division
~ Unknown
wrote White, expressing the firm belief that 'England will best Germany because Germany is wicked, and the English, if not salt of the earth, are "good" men
~ Philip Hoare
If the Axis had lost the war, we'd be able to say and write anything we wanted, like we used to; we'd be one country and we'd have a fair legal system, the same one for all of us.
~ Philip K. Dick
Our homeland was America. Then the Republicans nominated Lindbergh and everything changed.
~ Philip Roth
Perhaps the very darkness of the Trump experience can summon the nation to its senses and jolt Americans to a new politics of commonality, a new politics in which the Trump experience is remembered as the end of something bad, and not the beginning of something worse.
~ David Frum
En 1958, il ne fait aucun doute qu'une large majorité de Français voulait voir la guerre se terminer, mais se terminer avec la défaite du FLN. «
~ Unknown