Quotes About Nationalism

It is for Irishmen to criticize the absurdities of Irish nationalism, Welshmen those of Welsh nationalism, Englishmen those of their own brand – which are harder to detect than the others, at any rate for themselves. Nobody else can do it for them. This may be difficult, unpopular, and at times even hopeless, but the nation which lacks internal critics is lost, like Germany in Hitler's days.

Ancient India cannot be fitted into the narrow box where the Hindutva activists want to incarcerate it.

We teach history to instill in new generations the values of patriotism, citizenship, and love of country, but sometimes we must also remember that we teach history so that we can liberate ourselves from the past.

Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone and as irrational as a headless hen.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

The twentieth century will have taught us that no doctrine in itself is necessarily a liberating force: all of them may be perverted or take a wrong turning; all have blood on their hands - communism, liberalism, nationalism, each of the great religions, and even secularism. Nobody has a monopoly on humane values.

N'est-ce pas la vertu première du nationalisme que de trouver un coupable plutôt qu'une solution ?

Quand on ne peut plus exercer ses prérogatives de citoyen sans se référer à ses appartenances ethniques ou religieuses, c'est que la nation entière s'est engagée sur la voie de la barbarie.

Souvent, lorsqu'un pays trahit ses valeurs, il trahit aussi ses intérêts.

C'est l'occident qui est croyant, jusque dans sa laïcité, et c'est l'Occident qui est religieux, jusque dans l'athéisme. Ici, au Levant, on ne se préoccupe pas des croyances, mais des apparences. Nos confessions sont des tribus, notre zèle religieux est une forme de nationalisme...

toutes deux farouchement nationalistes et résolument hostiles à la société cosmopolite d'avant : d'un côté, les Frères musulmans, qui bénéficiaient d'un vaste soutien populaire ; de l'autre, les forces armées, au sein desquelles un homme fort allait émerger, le colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Ainsi, par son action en Égypte, Churchill a favorisé l'émergence du nationalisme arabe dans sa version autoritaire et xénophobe ; et par son action en Iran, il a pavé la voie à l'islamisme khomeyniste.

It creates within America a virtuous Us and a demonized Them.

Humans aren't just a little tribal. We're very tribal, and it distorts the way we think and feel. But not all group identities are equally potent. Some have a much stronger grip than others and are more politically galvanizing. Very few people have ever given their lives for the American Podiatry Association. One of the most powerful forms of group identity—and the focal point of political tribalism and violence all over the world today—is ethnicity.

mon grand-père m'a dit que si le patriotisme se mesure en portant un drapeau, alors les bâtiments gouvernementaux sont patriotiques qu'autre chose

On croit mourir pour la patrie ; on meurt pour des industriels

The most visible and often tragic sacrifice of proletarian socialism - not to mention internationalism - on the altar of nationalism, of course, has been by the states that proclaim themselves to be, or to aspire to become, socialist.

The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire,' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose sugar flowed through English blood , and rotted English teeth.

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

M. E. Dodd, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, expressed his belief that Hitler's moves against German Jews were unfortunately necessary because they had used their strengths "for self-aggrandizement to the injury of the German people," and he charged that "since the war some 200,000 Jews from Russia and other Eastern places had come to Germany. Most of these were Communist agitators against the government.

This new fight was for the heart and soul of America against the tide of racially degenerate immigrants who sought to dilute her Anglo-Saxon bloodlines and undermine her Christian identity with their Roman Catholic conspiracies.

When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.