Quotes About Nationalism

No wonder religious fundamentalism and extreme right-wing nationalism simultaneously reappear.

We are all pretty determined people, And like Americans tend to look at the place we live in as not only a place but also an idea we live in.

And then I think that while America was busy patting itself on the back and beating its chest,

Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it's startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are 'We're number two!

The best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins—and he her worst enemy who, under the specious . . . garb of patriotism seeks to excuse, palliate or defend them.

Throughout the Near East lay rare tinder for anti-Western propaganda: a Moslem culture and history, bitter Arab nationalism galled by Jewish immigration under British protection and with massive American financial support, the remnants of a colonial status, and a sense of grievance that a vast natural resource was being extracted by foreigners under arrangements thought unfair to those living on the surface. This tinder could be, and was, lighted everywhere...

Our national emblem has four lions but unfortunately we have highlighted more lambs and wolfs than real lions of our country.

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.

Nationalism is essentially a group memory of past achievements, traditions, and experiences

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's An Autobiography: The Story Of My Experiments With Truth and Hind Swaraj, Rabindranath Tagore's Nationalism and Gora, and Jawaharlal's Nehru's An Autobiography—is The Discovery of India.

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans ' and smile.

Quatorze juillet : partout le bleu, le blanc, le rouge. Divine, par gentillesse pour elles, méprisées, s'habille de toutes les autres couleurs.

En 1915 je suis parti sans croire à la patrie. J'ai eu tort. Non pas de ne pas croire : de partir.

1. Once again, my country, that country which is only an idea has not been invaded and never will be. 2. Pétain is not France. Pétain and Laval do not speak for us. Their word does not commit us to anything and cannot dishonor us. 3. The only right way to gauge this event must be in terms of the world. In the world, France has not been defeated.

If you want to get out of that crib, stand up and be an American.

Bundists marched regularly in Times Square, demanding that all "foreigners" be sent back to their own countries and no more admitted; New York had its own share of Nazi sympathizers and American Aryanists.

For a group of nationalist intellectuals much later in history to have sat down and decided that Dante's Italian would now be the official language of Italy would be very much as if a group of Oxford dons had sat down one day in the early nineteenth century and decided that—from this point forward—everybody in England was going to speak pure Shakespeare.

Many young Raza activists today are adopting a vision that embraces the strengths of nationalism while shunning its divisiveness. They call it native spirituality, or the natural way, or indigenismo, and see it as that revolutionary worldview we urgently need.

The world of today is at the crossroads--[t]he whole scheme of aimless capitalism and the last dregs of traditionalist nationalism are being seen more clearly in their death struggle.

Yes, but everywhere needs some defence against people just coming in and overrunning the place with their terrorisms or their deficiencies, eh, sweetheart, Richard says. That's right, Terence says. Got to keep all those bad refugees out. The ones looking for a better life. Couldn

am American bred, I have seen much to hate here--much to forgive, But in a world where England is finished and dead, I do not wish to live.

Monsieur le Gouverneur-Général, you reason in the French of France, but we reason in the French of Algeria." It was not at all the same language, as was to become tragically plain later, and in order to understand events from 1954 onwards it is necessary to accept the existence of three totally distinct peoples — the French of France, the French of Algeria, and the Muslims of Algeria.

Our nation is the sum of Scandinavian Scotland, Pictish Scotland, Irish Scotland, English Scotland and British Scotland.