Quotes About Nationalism

Then he shouted: "India shall be a nation! No foreigners of any sort! Hindu and Moslem and Sikh and all shall be one! Hurrah! Hurrah for India! Hurrah! Hurrah!" India a nation! What an apotheosis! Last comer to the drab nineteenth-century sisterhood! Waddling in at this hour of the world to take her seat! She, whose only peer was the Holy Roman Empire, she shall rank with Guatemala and Belgium perhaps!

Ronny approved of religion as long as it endorsed the National Anthem, but he objected when it attempted to influence his life.

We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Just sail around the world and stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain!" They're going "You can't claim us, we live here! Five hundred million of us!" "Do you have a flag …? "No..." "Well, if you don't have a flag, then you can't have a country. Those are the rules... that I just made up!

Have you got a flag?

To make that decision, we will have to avoid the trap of placing the burden of our national sins on the shoulders of Donald Trump. We need to look inward. Trump is us. Or better, Trump is you.

If the condition of the love of country is a lie, the love itself, no matter how genuine, is a lie.

We have earned the slogan, "Yanks, go home!"

No hay razón práctica que justifique el deseo de independizarse de España. Comparativamente, y pese a todo, España no es un mal país. Podría ser mejor, pero dudo de que Cataluña, librada a sus fuerzas, se convirtiera en el paraíso que anuncian los partidarios de la nueva República.

Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands.

Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' someone asked the chaplain. No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

Remember Pearl Harbor.

My patriotic heart beats red, white, and blue.

Some talk of Alexander, and some of Hercules;Of Hector, and Lysander, and such great names as these;But of all the world's brave heroes, there's none that can compareWith a tow, row, row, row, row, row for the British Grenadier.

It's pride that puts this country down;Man, take thine old cloak about thee.

O Paddy dear, an' did ye hear the news that's goin' round?The shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground!No more St. Patrick's Day we'll keep, his color can't be seen,For there's a cruel law agin the wearin' o' the Green!

The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth. So it has been an honour to serve it. I give my thanks to you, the British people, for the times that I have succeeded, and my apologies to you for the times I have fallen short. But good luck.

That's why you'll never catch me saluting a flag. I abhor all national flags because they are idols. What are we saluting? I salute humanity, not a flag with an army around it.

Tre ragazzi passano ridendo e Max li guarda con intensità. Su un muro butterato e chiazzato di licheni è fissata una piccola lapide di pietra. <>Ici a été tuè Buy Gaston Marcel agé de 18 ans, mort pour la France le 11 aout 1944. Jutta si siede per terra. Il mare è gonfio, grigio d'ardesia. Non ci sono lapidi per i tedeschi morti qui.

You will eat country and breathe nation.

Turn not your country's hand against your country's heart!

There's nothing to beat the full English,' Marc exclaimed. 'And don't you give me any of that continental rubbish. Yoghurt and croissant and that horrible concoction they call muesli. If you ask me, that's the best thing about getting out of the EU, and there's a long list where that's concerned.

News and images move so easily across borders that attitudes and aspirations are no longer especially national. Cyber-weapons, no longer the exclusive province of national governments, can originate in a hacker's garage.