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Quotes About Nationalism

The Jerusalem Report captures this Holocaust kitsch moment on the March: "'I'm so scared, I can't go on, I want to be in Israel already,' repeats a young Connecticut woman over and over. Her body is shaking. . . . Suddenly her friend pulls out a large Israeli flag. She wraps it around the two of them and they move on." An Israeli flag: don't leave home without it.87
~ Unknown
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
~ Norman Thomas
Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.
~ Novak Djokovic
Babam beni mektebe götürdü?ü zaman, çantamla birlikte art?k uzun bir hayat tecrübesini de omzumda ta??yordum. Bir de Vatan denen bir ?ey vard? ki, çok iyi korunmas? gerekiyordu. Bizler, her sabah hep bir a??zdan onu özümüzden çok sevdi?imizi, ant denen bir ?ey içerek hayk?r?yorduk.
~ Unknown
Jarret's supporters are more than a little seduced by Jarret's talk of making America great again. He seems to be unhappy with certain other countries. We could wind up in a war. Nothing like a war to rally people around flag, country, and great leader.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Jarret's supporters are more than a little seduced by Jarret's talk of making America great again. He seems to be unhappy with certain other countries.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Jarret's supporters are more than a little seduced by Jarret's talk of making America great again. He seems to be unhappy with certain other countries. We could
~ Octavia E. Butler
Nothing like a war to rally people around flag, country, and great leader.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Jarret condemns the burnings, but does so in such mild language that his people are free to hear what they want to hear. As for the beatings, the tarring and feathering, and the destruction of "heathen houses of devil-worship," he has a simple answer: "Join us! Our doors are open to every nationality, every race! Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again.
~ Octavia E. Butler
seduced by Jarret's talk of making America great again. He seems to be unhappy with certain other countries.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Jasenovac concentration camp, which had been the largest "place of extermination" in fascist Croatia during the Second World War. "No one know exact number, but some say a million murdered there. They killing Jews and Gypsies, but most was Serbs.
~ Unknown
Fryderyk Chopin had always said he wanted to be buried in his native land,
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!Long has it waved on high,And many an eye has danced to seeThat banner in the sky;Beneath it rung the battle shout,And burst the cannon's roar—The meteor of the ocean airShall sweep the clouds no more.
~ Unknown
Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.
~ Unknown
Suddenly all those individuals who yesterday felt that "we" meant only their families, their professions, or perhaps their communities, become men of the nation. Their emotions and thoughts, their egos, that "something" within them, all are transformed: they have become historical.
~ Oswald Spengler
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
~ Otto von Bismarck
If the exchange rate is a matter of pride, Japan should be only half as proud as India (120 yen to a dollar) and China ten times more (6.2 yuan to a dollar)! My
~ P. Chidambaram
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
~ Pablo Casals
the love of ones country is a slended thing but why should love stop at the border.
~ Pablo Casals
Cuánto agradezco a las bondades del destino, el que nos haya dado a los mexicanos de verdad, en estos momentos difíciles, un presidente feo, al que le quedan mal los fracs, que no luce bigote, al que la barba no le acaba de salir del todo, que no sabe montar a caballo y a duras penas en mula y al que le gusta el chocolate sopeado. Esta es la patria que me agrada y por la que suspiro.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Nationalism has again become a seductive but treacherous antidote to an experience of disorder and meaninglessness: the unexpectedly rowdy anticlimax, in a densely populated world, of the Western European eighteenth-century dream of a universally secular, materialist and peaceful civilization.
~ Pankaj Mishra
Bloom wrote, 'there is nowhere else to seek it. I would suggest that fascism has a future, if not the future.' The English political philosopher John Gray warned of the return of 'more primordial forces, nationalist and religious, fundamentalist and soon, perhaps, Malthusian' that the Cold War had tranquillized; he pointed to the intellectual incapacity of liberalism as well as Marxism in this new world order.
~ Pankaj Mishra