Quotes About Nationalism

A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.

It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.

When I was in Taiwan, I was taught in school that Taiwan is part of China.

The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.

Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?

I'm an American citizen. I pay my taxes. I want my equal rights. But this is my country, and consequently, I don't want to open up for ISIS or for anybody that will take away what we've already gained.

If, like me, you believe that your taxes should be spent on your priorities in this country by politicians accountable to you then you should vote to leave the E.U.

The U.S. government should not spend a single taxpayer dollar to teach children to dislike their country.

I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it.

My father is a scientist , my mother a teacher, my brother is a Naval Officer and I am an entertainer - we all are doing out a bit for our country!

Some people say I don't love the French national team. If that were the case, I would have said so directly to the coach, because I'm a big boy.

You cannot compare the way someone plays for a club and for a national team. At a club, you spend every day with the same players. In a national team, you are with your team-mates for only a few days.

It's always nice to go back and play for my country. My teammates and I grew up together.

At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It's difficult to explain.

De Gaulle reluctantly reboarded La Combattante, convinced that "France would live, for she was equal to her suffering," while privately wondering, "How can one be expected to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Every house seemed to display a crucifix or Christian texts over the bedsteads; some flew Allied flags, or posted signs claiming that the occupants were Dutch or Belgian, and never mind that discolored patch of wallpaper where the Führer's portrait had hung until the day before. "No one is a Nazi. No one ever was," Gellhorn wrote. "It would sound better if it were set to music. Then the Germans could sing this refrain.

Flags, like bodies, are powerful symbols.

Russian nationalism was as alien to Lenin's makeup as it was congenial, deep down, to Stalin's.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. [ West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette , 319 U.S. 624 (1943)]

It is at this point that I'm afraid you lose me. You want my country to go to war to prevent three million Germans joining Germany, on the off chance that you and your friends can then get rid of Hitler? Well, I have to say, from what I've seen today, he looks pretty well entrenched to me.

The Germans felt themselves superior to the Italians. The Italians thought the Germans vulgar.

However, every racist bigot in the UK did vote to leave the EU. All of them.

He had no idea that the world was entering an economic depression, or that hard times bring recriminations and blame. Privately, Harry's parents worried not just about the economy, but about the rising tide of nationalism and anti- Semitism.