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Quotes About Nationalism

Patriots built Auschwitz. You start believing that "my country wrong or right" shit, and it always ends up at the same place: a pit filled with bones.
~ John Connolly
Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.
~ Francis Bacon
The brave pilot gave his life defending his faith, country and nation and joined other Jordanian martyrs who gave their lives for Jordan.
~ Abdallah II
I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
~ Anish Kapoor
Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.
~ Ann Coulter
In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life - one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.
~ Bill Moyers
that good people fought valiantly for disgraceful causes. . . . But by joining the Confederate war machine, all of them, irrespective of their personal motivations, advanced their nation's political agenda—the perpetuation and territorial expansion of human bondage and the misery that it entailed."9
~ Edward H. Bonekemper III
He advised a new 'responsible nationalism', which would 'begin from the idea that the basic responsibility of government is to maximize the welfare of its citizens, not to pursue some abstract concept of the global good'.76
~ Edward Luce
Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans.
~ Edward P. Jones
Nationalism has little to contribute today except further suffering.
~ Edward Teller
Evil-minded personas sponsor and let create terrorist groups for their goals, spending billions of the national treasure; thereupon, only to eliminate those groups and start new similar fields, again and again, wasting trillions of the state's resources. Isn't it a devilish mentality for a bloodshed game? - As a result, not welfare, but poverty, not love, but hatred, not peace, but violence wins and prevails.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
One cannot impose its nationalism and ethnicity, except a legal dispute, on the ground of language, creed, caste, race, and colour upon a major host of it, who provided shelter and refuge as the human rights context. Indeed, it pictures the grave dishonesty, misrepresentation, even traitorous motives.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Suspend and even leave your rights if the national unity, stability, and integrity stay great importance than your prerogatives.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Those, who go to aliens with a begging bowl for financial assistance in the pursuit of retaining power in their country and damage national pride, and subject the nation to international ridicule. Such people are criminals.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
This isn't the Palestinian flag. Palestine isn't a country for it to have a flag. Palestine is a condition. Every Arab is a Palestinian. Every poor man who carries a gun is a Palestinian. Palestine is the condition of us all.
~ Elias Khoury
One can define this virtue," he wrote, "as love of the laws and of the homeland [patrie].
~ Anthony Pagden
Ya hay un español que quiere vivir y a vivir empieza, entre una España que muere y otra España que bosteza. Españolito que vienes al mundo te guarde Dios. una de las dos Españas ha de helarte el corazón.
~ Antonio Machado
Españolito que vienes al mundo te guarde Dios. Una de las dos Españas ha de helarte el corazón.
~ Antonio Machado
A person who shows the honest respect for hard workers is more nationalist than one who displays pompously own country flag on self body or dress part.
~ Anuj Somany
Flush out politics from the sport to let there be honest selection of the players and its board members, then there is no reason why that particular game will not attain its glory and bring laurel to the nation.
~ Anuj Somany
Rather than taking vainly pride of our fellows who have made a big name in other nations, we should introspect and inspect as why they could not achieve the same feat in own country and correct.
~ Anuj Somany
There are a lot of people who have no love for their nation, but will use any national day celebration as an opportunity to gain publicity by sharing online greetings of the day with own picture & flag in it and selfish businessmen even use it just for own brand promotion
~ Anuj Somany
Back in my own place, the sky burst in upon me from the window and I was reminded of a long-forgotten passage in War and Peace. Napoleon, walking through the battlefield, sees a dying soldier and, holding up the flag of France, declaims: "Do you know, my noble hero, that you have given your life for your country?" "Please! Please!" the soldier cries. "You are blotting out the sky.
~ Anzia Yezierska