Quotes About Nationalism

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.

Being American is not a matter of birth. We must practice it every day, lest we become something else.

You can scream you're Indian, you can disavow your religion, you can even be the next incarnation of Krishna for all your Hindu countrymen will care. Their HRM will pull down your pants and check your foreskin and slaughter you just the same.

India was free... broken in parts... bruised, but free. There was an essential unity to India that no partition could destroy.

Bapu could not bear the thought of India being partitioned, but the bitter truth was that in the hearts of Indians, lines were already drawn.

Gandhi. Jinnah. Patel. Three men from Gujarat who had worked together as one team at one time for one goal, Now the British were leaving, goal achieved, but the team had fractured.

The world hat day appeared perfect. Like a great wrong had been righted. India had shrugged off her shackles and had stood upright, ready to claim her rightful position o the world stage.

As the tricolour was unfurled against the sky, a light rain began to fall an s a resounding cheer broke through. he stood in the sea of his countrymen and women, unable or unwilling to return to the flagstaff. The Governer general, standing upright in the car, saluted the flag. A bright rainbow appeared emblazoning saffron, white, green - the colours of Independent India - in the blue sky. Jawahar felt curiously light. As if Indra himself had unfurled the tricoor from his indradhanush!

So, nationalism (Spanish nationalism as well as Catalan nationalism), both in Catalonia and in Spain, takes the forefront of the political landscape in line with a broader trend sweeping European democracies.

My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins.

European nightmare – the delusional myth of one blood, one race, one people. And

The skinheads never got anywhere, Hansi, continued the general, because this is Germany and the assholes never learned to march in step . . .

It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ridiculous building.

Other countries pass laws requiring that their movie theaters, television networks, and radio stations have to play a certain percentage of homegrown entertainment. Because if they didn't, Hollywood would wipe it all out. We're not a world leader because we have nuclear missiles and submarines. We are because we have Bugs Bunny and Friends. Our planet is what Hollywood has made it.

As the wine went down in the bottles, patriotism arose in the three men. And when the wine was gone they went down the hill arm in arm for comradeship and safety, and they walked into Monterey. In front of an enlistment station they cheered loudly for America and dared Germany to do her worst. They howled menaces at the German Empire until the enlistment sergeant awakened and put on his uniform and came into the street to silence them. He remained to enlist them.

Why, he'd kill a fella soon's he'd look at him. We got to keep these here people down or they'll take the country. They'll take the country. Outlanders, foreigners.

Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people, " to the exclusion of other human beings.

Family - see Fascist State.

You are part of our Great British family.

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!