Quotes About Nationalism

The standard by which ideas are to be judged, Hitler says repeatedly, is not "abstract" considerations of logic or fidelity to fact. The standard is: usefulness to the Volk.

Nationalism, said Hitler—echoing German thinkers from Fichte through Spengler—means the power of the nation over the individual in every realm, including economics; i.e., it means socialism. Socialism, he said, means rule by the whole, by the greatest of all wholes, Germany.

The Nazi formations were trained to vent fury and sow terror—to break up meetings of opponents, to administer beatings, provoke street fights, stage riots, mutilate bodies, kick in skulls. These were the methods by which Hitler proposed to make his nationalism, his socialism, and his promises to every group come true.

It was always somebody's turn. The Irish, the Italians, the Jews, the Negroes or Chinese or Mexicans. A great wheel of bigotry, ever turning. Who got to decide what made somebody an American? America, the ideal of it at least, was its own form of elusive magic.

A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

[We should] stop the immigration to our societies - because we have had more than enough Islam in our societies.

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is

For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.

Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.

I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.

I'm going to win it for my country. I'm the first Aboriginal to win this. Isn't that something? I wish my Dad was alive to see it. He'd be as proud as I am.

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.

Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.

Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.

El nacionalismo es una enfermedad infantil. Es el sarampion de la humanidad.

In countries vulnerable for brain drain, loyalty or patriotism is often the only thing that can make people stay or draw them back

nationalism will always produce at least one war each generation. It has done in the past, and I suppose we can rely on it to do the same in the future.

The philosophy that rationalizes power politics and justifies war and military training is always (whatever the official religion of the politicians and war makers) some wildly unrealistic doctrine of national, racial or ideological idolatry, having, as its inevitable corollaries, the notions of Herrenvolk and "the lesser breeds without the Law.

The philosophy that rationalizes power politics and justifies war and military training is always (whatever the religion of the politicians and the war makers) some wildly unrealistic doctrine of national, racial, or ideological idolatry, having, as inevitable corollaries the notions of Herrenvolk and "lesser breeds without the law.

among his very few belongings I found a small, green leather-bound booklet given "to Timothy Donald Fuller with the Compliments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a memento on becoming a citizen of Rhodesia at Umtali on 17th October, 1974." Inside the pamphlet were a few of the sorts of things meant to inspire Rhodesian citizens onward and upward to greater things. A statue of Cecil John Rhodes, looking gouty; that was page 1.

Perhaps more than an American high school, Japan is like an English public school. You are supposed to learn, excel, and win athletic distinctions—not for yourself, but for the house and for the country, for being Japanese. First on the field, all for the sake of your school. And then, the emptiness when you graduate.