Quotes About Nationalism

Three plagues, three contagions, threaten the world. The first is the plague of nationalism. The second is the plague of racism. The third is the plague of religious fundamentalism.

Kinder?" Ash snorted. "Easier, you mean. Wrap it all in King and Country and forget what war really is. It betrays them, it betrays everyone who died.

Nathuram Godse. "Thank God," Amina burst out, "it's not a Muslim name!

Across the Atlantic, in another theatre of the identity wars, the British prime minister was narrowing the definition of Britishness to exclude multiplicity, internationalism, the world as the location of the self. Only little England would do to define the English.

we live in an age in which we are urged to define ourselves more and more narrowly, to crush our own multidimensionality into the straitjacket of a one-dimensional national, ethnic, tribal, or religious identity. This, I have come to think, may be the evil from which flow all the other evils of our time.

The fascist says, It's not what you think, or what you think you know, that is important. The only truth is whether or not you feel subjectively, spiritually, part of a larger national community __ and if you do, wonderful! And if you don't, then you're an enemy.

Sport is cultural. What the star athlete does helps to define the culture. What the star athlete does on a Canadian team, especially if he or she is Canadian, helps define Canadian-ness.

Let us celebrate the spirit of sport through the National Games

The Jew is contrary to our being. ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale.

The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people.

I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the nationalism of the Palestinian people.

I think UKIP [ UK Independence Party] and the BNP [British National Party] are very, very English concerns. If they gather strength they're going to add to this schism between Scotland and England.

No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people and is achieved by fair and honest means.

The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.

Patriotism has a lot to do with the success of the show

there is no nation but the French that can smile even in the face of grim Death himself.

I hate the English--they are coarse, like every nation that swills beer.

Patriotism is most often nothing more but an extension of individual egoism

Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment.

One's love for despotism is in exact proportion to one's contempt for one's country.

I have heard of patriotism in the United States, and it is a virtue which may be found among the people, but never among the leaders of the people.

As the American participates in all that is done in his country, he thinks himself obliged to defend whatever may be censured; for it is not only his country which is attacked upon these occasions, but it is himself. The consequence is, that his national pride resorts to a thousand artifices, and to all the petty tricks of individual vanity.

It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.

We make Rizal in our own image and likeness. Our image of Rizal is usually formed or deformed in school through numerous biographies with flattering titles.