Quotes About Nationalism

Patriotism has been used to fan the flames of nationalism among Americans. Today, anyone who criticizes foreign policy, overseas military interventions, or even questions national policies opens themselves to charges of being unpatriotic.

Socialism meant the responsibility of the whole for the individual, whereas "nationalism" was the devotion of the individual to the whole; thus the two elements could be combined in National Socialism. This prestidigitation allowed all interest groups to have their way and reduced the ideas to mere counters: capitalism found its true and ultimate fulfillment in Hitler's socialism, whereas socialism was only attainable under the capitalistic economic system.

It is horrible how people will use anything as a political monkey wrench and to hell with the country. (Julia Child to Avis DeVoto)

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science

Although every country thought itself superior in its own way, was there ever a country that coined so many "super" terms from the federal bank of its narcissism, was not only superconfident but also truly superpowerful, that would not be satisfied until it locked every nation of the world into a full nelson and made it cry Uncle Sam?

They were average specimens of national manhood, slim and gaunt with deeply tanned skin from riding in jeeps and on motorcycles.

We were not a people who charged into war at the beck and call of bugle or trumpet. No, we fought to the tunes of love songs, for we were the Italians of Asia.

To be anti-American only makes you a reactionary. In our case, having defeated the Americans, we no longer defined ourselves as anti-American. We are simply one hundred percent Vietnamese.

that social-chauvinism (socialism in words, chauvinism in deeds)

On vit bien (...) que la France n'était pas réconciliée avec elle-même, ce qui n'étonne pas quand lorsqu'on pense que c'est le seul pays au monde à avoir une fête nationale et un hymne national qui célèbrent la division et non l'union.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

A terrible beauty is born.

Patriotism is merely deeply-rooted government brand loyalty.

Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement can encourage the wrong kinds of distance, and if the nationalism we see sparking up around the globe arises from too narrow and fixed a sense of loyalty, the internationalism that's coming to birth may reflect too roaming and undefined a sense of belonging.

No appeals to its outmoded constitution can change that. Japan must rearm and take its rightful place in the world.

Identity without democracy is totalitarian; democracy without identity is weak and self-betraying.

World Court, two venerated institutions of the Left, which is opposed to all nationalisms (except Palestinian).

Unlike other countries, the United States is more an idea than a place, ethnicity, or race. Unfortunately, most American young people today cannot answer, What is America for? What is it about? Why was it founded? Why is it different? They can't answer these questions because they haven't been taught an answer.

When the choice before us was the whole of Eretz Israel but no Jewish state or no Jewish state but not the whole of Eretz Israel, we chose a Jewish state.

Or perhaps I should say—what England wants." He held out a glass to Grey, smiling. "For one can hardly separate your interests from those of your country, can one? In fact, I confess that you have always seemed to me to be England, John.