Quotes About Nationalism

To my mind, a Fascist is someone who identifies strongly with and claims to speak for a whole nation or group, is unconcerned with the rights of others, and is willing to use whatever means are necessary—including violence—to achieve his or her goals. In that conception, a Fascist will likely be a tyrant, but a tyrant need not be a Fascist.

The antidote to hateful, nationalistic, violent Christianity, Einstein proposed, is Christianity in practice.

you dont like the stars in Old Glory Then go back to your land across the sea To the land from which you came Whatever be its name

We, in this country, in this generation, are - by destiny rather than by choice - the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

Dónde más, en un país que no sea totalitario, sino en la profesión política, se espera que el individuo lo sacrifique todo —incluyendo su propia carrera— por el bien nacional?

Patrick was a Scottish patriot: pro-French and anti-English, but also an opportunist who flirted with England

Moreover, there was what Amy called "the cocksuckers' contingent of the country"—what Danny knew as the dumber-than-dog-shit element, those bully patriots—and they were too set in their ways or too poorly educated (or both) to see beyond the ceaseless flag-waving and nationalistic bluster.

I'll tell you what's wrong with dumb-shit patriotism--it's delusional! It signifies nothing but the American need to win

patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda—and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.

I think you're being selfish." "What do you mean, selfish?" Wally asked. "A war is for your country, it's serving your country!" "To you, it's an adventure," Candy said. "That's what's selfish about it.

We're going to murder those lousy Hun cocksuckers by the bushel-fucking-basket …

Ha a demokrácia a világ leegyszer?sítése elleni állandó harcot jelenti, úgy a nacionalizmus állandó harc azért, hogy megsemmisítsék a sokrét?séget, olyan akarat, amely bizonyos dolgokról nem akar hallani, választott tudatlanság, nem az ártatlanságé.

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate

Historians with virtual unanimity agree that the harshness toward Germany of the Paris peace treaty helped create the economic hardship, nationalistic reaction, and political chaos that fostered the rise of Adolf Hitler.

I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.

Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Liberty, equality, fraternity. Watchword of French Revolution. And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.

The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse. But the scale doesn't matter.

Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.

[Russians] want to bring us down to make them feel better about the failure of the Soviet Union. I don't mean bring us down as in collapse, but bring us down a notch in a big way.

Ahora que esta amenaza [la agresión soviética] ha sido eliminada, han surgido otros problemas... Existe un enorme incentivo para trabajar cooperativamente. Pero las fuerzas del nacionalismo, el proteccionismo y los conflictos religiosos avanzan en dirección contraria. El nuevo orden mundial debe desarrollar un mundo cooperativo y encontrar nuevos medios para reprimir dichas fuerzas divisorias

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.