Quotes About Nationalism

Let's put America first. Let's not spill American blood to fight the enemies of other countries as is the case in Syria.

I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.

Il n'est pas très courant de voir un peuple durement opprimé accourir, tout juste libéré, chez son oppresseur, pour demeurer sous son administration ; il faut croire que la France, en fait, n'avait pas laissé sur l'autre rive de la Méditerranée un trop mauvais souvenir pour que ses ex-assujettis n'aient rien eu de plus pressé, à peine sa tutelle écartée, que de se précipiter sur son sol. Ou bien venaient-ils en conquérants ?

Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for larger spurs and brighter beaks.

All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

Republicans don't want to 'save the world'; they want to save the country from those who would 'save the world.

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

provided the French with money and weaponry, were hardening into a Cold War frame of mind: they saw the Viet Minh as just another kind of communist and failed to understand the degree to which they were inspired by nationalism and open to friendship with them.

The wave of anti-imperial nationalism proved this time to be irreversible, and it was met by the old imperial powers with an uneven mix of expedient compromise and extreme violence. The crises of empire when they came were not unpredictable, like an earthquake, but their effects were seismic. The collapse of the European Asian empires between 1946 and 1954 ended centuries of empire-building in eight years.

Whatever scientists of one warring nation could conceive, the scientists of another warring nation might also conceive—and keep secret. That early in 1939 and early 1940, the nuclear arms race began.

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it.

Why is it that those who want to destroy everything good about their country are the quickest to waive the national flag?

Meanwhile the subject peoples of the Austrian Empire were starting to think they might rule themselves—which was why the Bosnian nationalist Gavrilo Princip had shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.

They carried Union Jack flags. Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

Why was it, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

Boy did not see why two great nations such as England and Germany should go to war over a half-barbaric wasteland such as Poland.

pensaba que el orgullo nacionalista era una verdadera gilipollez

Fascism blames problems on a false cause—people of other races.

Hacía que le dieran ganas de echarse a llorar por su país.

Patria o muerte! Motherland or death! Cuba si, yanqui no!

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.