Quotes About Nationalism

Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.

I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.

The story of the British empire helps to explain the roots of most British people: white, black, and Asian.

People say I should be running for a gold medal for the old red, white and blue and all that bull, but it's not gonna be that way.

We're red, white and blue, and President Obama, we are through with you.

I'm a better American than 99% of the guys in the White House.

The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it.

If we bankrupt America, we will all pay the price.

I am a Hindu, and I have pride in that.

Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.

Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.

Really, it's only been since the '70s that Canadians have had any pride in their country.

What motivated me as much as anything was to show the racists that a black man could bring pride and honour to Britain.

There are times this stony heart of mine feels a burst of British pride.

From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore.

The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.

Modi's masterstroke has always been to blur the battlelines and construct an artificial enemy one that plays into primal instincts of pride and insecurity.

When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

It is often remarked that I am very close to Mr. Modi. But when it comes to issues of national importance, I've never indulged in politics or considered whether the Prime Minister is from the opposition.

Vallabhbhai Patel was known as the Iron Man of India, and it is said that if he was the Prime Minister then the issue of Kashmir wouldn't have come about. And if Savarkar was the Prime Minister, Pakistan wouldn't have come into existence.

Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.

I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.

I put my country and my principles first.

I am a big fan of the following priorities: first the country, then the party and then the person. I believe that this gives credibility and I want to be credible.