Quotes About Nationalism

We love our country, not because it is perfect in everything, but it manages to touch our heart despite all its imperfections in everything!

The Canada we know and love will not survive another four years of Stephen Harper and his Conservative government.

Porque esta guerra não foi feita para vos tirar do país mas para tirar o país de dentro de vós.

Other countries love their flags,' a Danish dinner guest protested to me recently. 'Look at the Olympics!' 'Yes,' I said. 'That's true. But the French don't hoist the Tricolor on the cat's birthday.

People don't always understand a lack of patriotism

Nationalism is the belief that no matter what one's country does—whether racist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, or the like—it must be supported and accepted entirely.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

The "myth of redemptive violence undergirds American popular culture, civil religion, nationalism, and foreign policy," argues Walter Wink.48 It underwrites the belief that killing and/or dying for the national interest is a sacred duty and even privilege. Service to the nation—especially military service, and particularly dying for one's country—is the highest form of both civic and religious devotion.

Whereas once medieval Europe had adhered to a common Catholic religion, a common Latin language, and common well-spiced cuisine (at least, for the elite), the balkanization of the Christian world along national lines now meant that nations could no longer gather around the same table as easily as before. Even though it would take some years, the Europe-wide fashion for spices-as much as Latin-would be a casualty of Martin Luther's squabble with the bishop of Rome.

What's the matter with us anyhow? If America ever loses confidence in herself, she will retain the confidence of no one, and she will lose her chance to be free, because the fearful are never free. —ADLAI STEVENSON, 1954

And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you.

History was becoming, as he would soon inform readers of the "Outline," 'a race between education and catastrophe.' The teaching of nationalistic history had fuelled the conflagration -- in Germany, most of all, but everywhere to some degree.

China's everything. Nothing else matters. We don't get China right, we don't get anything right. This whole thing is very simple. China is where Nazi Germany was in 1929 to 1930. The Chinese, like the Germans, are the most rational people in the world, until they're not. And they're gonna flip like Germany in the thirties. You're going to have a hypernationalist state, and once that happens you can't put the genie back in the bottle.

For Trump and his most dedicated confederates there was only one truly reliable issue: illegal immigration. In Trump's short political history, the issue had never failed to inspire and activate core voters.

China is where Nazi Germany was in 1929 to 1930. The Chinese, like the Germans, are the most rational people in the world, until they're not. And they're gonna flip like Germany in the thirties. You're going to have a hypernationalist state, and once that happens you can't put the genie back in the bottle.

Steve wants to force a million people out of the country and repeal the nation's health law and lay on a bunch of tariffs that will completely decimate how we trade,

There is no Israel for me.

J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?

Were they ready to give up everything for their country? I felt ready to give up everything, not really for my country, but in general.

Born and raised in France. Slaughtered in France.

Olisin voinut liittyä Front national -puolueeseen, mutta mitä ideaa siinä on että syö hapankaalia kusipäiden kanssa? Sitäpaitsi oikeistonaisia ei ole olemassakaan, ja nekin antavat vain laskuvarjojääkäreille.

America is not, nor has it ever been, the world's full-service homeless shelter.

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.