Quotes About Nationalism

Austria used to see itself as the first victim of National Socialism. That is certainly true for all those who fought in the resistance, whom we cannot thank enough, and who will always be shining examples. But... the ones who stood in such great numbers and celebrated in March 1938 in Heroes' Square were no victims.

We cannot allow Brexit to be driven by narrow and divisive Tory ideology.

Nationalism makes us weak because its eternal seeking of enemies, its disdain of others, its need to feel superior makes cooperation with other nations to collectively guarantee our freedom and security much more difficult.

But it so happens, and it will ever happen so, that they who have lived to serve their country - no matter how weak their efforts may have been - are sure to receive the thanks and blessings of its people.

If nationalism makes us poor, weak, and morally insecure, how can it claim to be patriotic? I maintain that nationalists are unpatriotic.

The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.

The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.

Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.

India has never played politics with national security.

Enough of the 'Canada is a modest country' boasts. Please. Just stop.

Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, 'with liberty and justice for all,' and I believed all that.

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?

We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors.

To be able to stand on the podium and see one Canadian flag raised is one thing, but to see two, it feels like you're not alone.

I'm no parasite. I'm a poet who will bring honor and glory to his country.

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

Hindutva is an idea where you learn things that schools and colleges do not teach you - to say we are all one because DNA says there is no such thing as Aryan or Dravidian.

I just want to serve Colombia.

I love Colombia's military. I love my country.

The United States does not carry baggage from a colonial past as do European countries.

With or without the armband, I would love to pull on the country's colours. That doesn't change.

I am not competing with anybody from India.

I am what this country dreams of achieving: a perfect example of composite India.