Quotes About Nationalism

Monoglot, the sign of an enclosed and self-deluding country.

As an inspiration for terrorism, however, nationalism has been far more productive than religion. Terrorism experts agree that the denial of a people's right to national self-determination and the occupation of its homeland by foreign forces has historically been the most powerful recruiting agent of terrorist organizations, whether their ideology is religious (the Lebanese Shii) or secular (the PLO).

Surely, argued the British philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806–73), it was better for a Breton to accept French citizenship "than to sulk on his own rocks, the half-savage remnant of past times, revolving in his own little mental orbit, without participation or interest in the general movement of the world.

People still dreamed of going on Crusade and liberating Jerusalem, but in an important development, holy warfare was beginning to merge with the patriotism of national war.

Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.

The working men have no country. We cannot take from them what they have not got.

The working men have no country... national differences and antagonisms between people are daily more and more vanishing, owing to the development of the bourgeoisie, to freedom of commerce, to the world market, to uniformity in the modes of production and to the conditions of life corresponding thereto.

Tek tek uluslar?n düÅŸünsel yarat?lar? hepsinin ortak mal? olmaktad?r. Ulusal tek yanl?l?k ve dar kafal?l?k her geçen gün biraz daha olanaks?zlaÅŸmakta, çok say?da ulusal ve yerel edebiyattan bir dünya edebiyat? doÄŸmaktad?r.

Nevertheless, for weal or for woe, there is no such thing extant as Anglo-Saxon—of all nations, said to be Anglo-Saxon, in the United States least. What we still have from England, much as appearances may seem to point the other way, is not of our bone-and-marrow, so to speak, but rather partakes of the nature of importations. We are no more English on account of them than we are Chinese because we all drink tea.

The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.

The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.

Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?

But in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr von Cuno.

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.

Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

They make other nations seem pale and flighty, But they do think England is God almighty, And you must remind them now and then That other countries breed other men.

They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.

The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

Slowly but without question - and Presidents' Day is only one example - Americans are forgetting and ignoring the men and events that have made this nation great.

When one man becomes more important than the country he's supposed to be leading, this will always create a problem.