Quotes About Nationalism

What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms—never—never—never! You cannot conquer America.

Johannes Meintjes… is one of the more articulate South Africans of his generation. A prolific painter, he is also a fluent author in both English and Afrikaans. With unresting curiosity about South African national and regional history, he seems blessedly free from political or racial bias, and when he writes of nations or persons in conflict is alert to what is good or bad on both sides.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours.

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and a common hatred of its neighbors.

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

Around World War II, we were proud as a people but modest as individuals.

Mary McCarthy that "The happy ending is our national belief

Imagine, representatives of our own government taking the side of a foreign country over the interest of American citizen. If it ever gets to where it's that way all the time, I tell you, this country won't be a fit place to live.

MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home

I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

The year that Hitler came into power the prestigious Oxford Union, a student debating society, overwhelmingly approved a motion stating that "this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country," and within a short period similar resolutions were adopted by most of England's other colleges and universities. When

Germany," Lindbergh said, "had the ambitious drive of America, but that drive was headed for war.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.

Once you lead [the] people into war, they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. The spirit of ruthless brutality will enter every fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.

The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.