Quotes About Nationalism

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.

Fear has become normal and is covered by the idea of "patriotism".

No nation's flag is great or glorious if it flies over the weak and downtrodden, even if they raise and protect it out of misguided allegiance.

The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.

America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

We're Irishmen, and our food is being sent away, grown in Irish soil to feed English bellies, while ours are empty and our people starve and

Regionalism, nationalism, tumultuous new patterns in economic and social life, as well as broad intellectual upheaval were all well advanced before the appearance of Protestantism.

The great hope of the Tet Offensive was that its very size and daring would trigger a surge of nationalism that would transcend barriers of ideology, class, and faith.

Further, there are structures of domination, again with histories and social patterns that limit many while entitling others in unfair ways (white supremacism, gender and sexual injustice, class exploitation, nationalisms, et al.). As

To imagine that Hitler was merely following in, say, Bismarck's footsteps was profoundly to misunderstand the man and his view of the world. Bismarck thought in terms of great-power politics, Hitler of racial triumph.

Where conservative parties were stronger, radical anti-immigrant parties found it more difficult to make headway. Where weak, the conservatives themselves often flirted with the same rhetoric: in Vienna, for instance, the ÖVP slogan of "Vienna for the Viennese" was hardly less inflammatory than the FPÖ version.

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

Stupid National Anthem... Look at this flag; Two bears fighting over a pineapple. What kind of message does that send to the world? "Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit."

You see, we're America the Beautiful, not America 'Well, At Least She Has a Great Personality'.

There is nothing more American than buying a Japanese car on the 4th of July

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.

The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.

The attitude of 'every nation unto itself' is a destructive one for the future of Israel.

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.