Quotes About Nationalism

When you serve the country selflessly, that is your greatest contribution to the country.

I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.

If appeasing other nations means that we need to begin acting like them, you can count me out.

I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

Russia will have a woman in space before the United States calls for a crash program for women astronauts.

Especially right after 9/11. Especially when the war in Afghanistan is going on. There was a real sense that you don't get that critical of a government that's leading us in war time.

You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I'll go: 'Aw, it's not that bad,' but at home, it's different. It's inside you.

In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders.

The best critics of America are Americans.

America has many cultures which makes it great, but it's difficult to create one strong identity.

One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries created by nation states, class systems, cultures and even religions. But often they are the last!

Crush Malaysia! Indonesia may change its tactics, but our goal will remain the same.

We will never allow anybody to separate Taiwan from China.

The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Taiwan becoming a local government of the People's Republic of China or a Special Administrative Region of China.

The election of the nationalist Chen Shui-bian as president in 2000 and his re-election in 2004 was a nadir in the relationship between Taiwan and the mainland.

For many Taiwanese, almost all Taiwanese, we'd like to we say we are a country, and we have a sovereignty of our own.

To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?

During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outsiders in their own country. And even though I was born in Cyprus, my parents were American, and so I was an outsider in the land of my birth.

Macron talks about values, but he doesn't recognize the values itself, and therefore, they have no lessons to give to Italy.

Modi talks about Congress Mukt Bharat. I feel this is a fascist ideology.

Sometimes a politician gets up and talks about British values and what we think that means, and we can be knocked down quite harshly, but I don't think we should be. I think we should be able to talk about British values and about immigration without people saying, 'Oh, you're just being like a crazed other party.'

'America has no culture!' is a phrase that we've all heard many times in our lives. As is often the case, a lie repeated often enough becomes an assumed truth (kind of like the tall tale of Janeane Garofalo being a comedian).

The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.

National loyalties overcame class loyalties, a fact not lost on ambitious demagogues like Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, who would rise to power after the war on platforms that fused socialism and nationalism.